Chula Vista

Controversial??? Says who? 1 in every 3 men on the planet is circumsized and mild corporal punishment is still a very prevalent form of discipline if all else fails.

Maybe you should get down off of your high horse.

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Chula Vista

For you to be the bestest insulter here, someone has to take up the other side of the scale, right?

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

Considering the amount of backlash you've received for those opinions that you failed to justify with anything beyond a bandwagon argument, you really wouldn't consider those things controversial?

Talk about high horses.

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Chula Vista

Maybe it's more about different generations?

And being against circumcision or spanking is just as much a bandwagon thing. You younger guys just have a bigger bandwagon around here.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

I think its more your reasoning for your opinions than your opinions themselves, since its pretty clear that you're working backwards from your conclusion to reach your backing points instead of the other way around, which would be more logical. It's human nature though and it's near impossible to shake--still worth being conscious of and trying to avoid it though.

The difference is that we don't use the popularity of our opinions to justify them.

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The Batlord

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Chula Vista

These two issues have come up in the past over on The Gear Page many times through the years. The majority of that place is a virtual nursing home. The opinions are just as lopsided over there but 180 degrees apart.



Way to paint with a broad brush. I provide plenty of substance. It just gets tiring being reffered as a "bad parent" a "lazy parent" a "barbaric parent" a "cruel parent", etc. for my views.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

I will agree that you probably actually believe this.

Give me one instance where someone referred to you specifically as this and I will give you 100 dollars.

When you're done with that snipe hunt, I wonder how you feel about this statement: well meaning parents can use bad parenting techniques.

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

bulbasaur

chula's a bad barbaric parent

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Chula Vista

If you make a post proclaiming how awesome Beefheart is and how much an influence he's been on you, and then in the very next post I say that people who like Beefheart are stupid and have zero musical taste - I've just insulted you.

Well meaning parents can use bad parenting techniques.

Well, who says they are bad? And remember, my two kids were raised before there was a widespread internet. There wasn't 10 million opposing opinions for every 10 million opinions back then.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”