That was always my issue with the quote too actually. Then I thought, well maybe he’s actually referring not to them being physically blind but that they were blind to their actions causing harm (and that now they lacked depth perception).
And then I thought maybe I’m blind for not seeing that earlier? :smack:
I was approached by a person who had the appearance of being homeless. They asked me for a couple bucks, stating that they were hungry and wanted a bite to eat from McD’s.
I gave them $5, 'cause my heart strings got tugged.
They proceded into the Walgreens to buy smokes.
I felt that my compassion was taken advantage of.
Now, when I get approached by other panhandlers, I feel slightly less inclined to hand over some spare change. Fool me twice, and all that.
People on these boards who might not to give Curtis LeMay the benefit of the doubt may be having a similar issue. They have been fooled (and feel betrayed by) some internet yahoo who trolled them.
It is not “perfectly normal” for people with Asperger’s syndrome to have violent fantasies about killing people who haven’t done them any harm. I’ve done a fair amount of reading about Asperger’s syndrome and autism spectrum disorders, and I’ve never heard of such fantasies being common (much less “normal”) for people with Asperger’s syndrome. Some people with Asperger’s syndrome do commit violent acts for reasons that make little sense to others, such as attacking someone whose voice they find annoying, but there’s no real evidence of a link between Asperger’s syndrome and violence. (See for instance Stal Bjorkly, “Risk and dynamics of violence in Asperger’s syndrome: A systematic review of the literature”, Aggression and Violent Behavior, v 14, i 5, Sept-Oct 2009, p 306-312.)
I disapprove of your revisionism and dishonesty. While indeed I said “everybody,” I subsequently stated that that was intentional hyperbole, a fact which I’m sure you understood from context was not meant to be taken literally.
I then restated the original argument in such a fashion that you could not twist it. From post 82, I said:
"f it is a point of honor for you to point out the fact that you don’t actually attack literally everybody who disagrees with you and that characterization is false, then I will so stipulate, but I think we both know that I didn’t literally mean “everybody,” so I don’t know what is being proved.
You have a reputation for losing your cool and going off when you feel you’ve been slighted. IMO, that reputation is earned. You’ve been pitted and piled on, and you know what it feels like to be attacked by people who simply have fun attacking others.
I would hope that would create some empathy, but it hasn’t that I can see, as you also participate and initiate character assassination type pittings and pile ons.
Your point seems to be that you don’t do it to literally everybody, only when you feel you’ve been insulted and disrespected. This seems to happen to you with an unusually high frequency.
My point is that it doesn’t matter. Bad behavior is bad behavior and there is no excuse.
The only useful thing I’ve learned from ten years plus on these boards is that it’s never justified."
Subsequently, you chose to ignore this and continue to debate the “everybody” argument. I assume that was deliberate. Debating the strawman is a lot easier than the facing the fact that you often act like a prick when your feathers get ruffled, and they get ruffled very easily.
Your a target of pile ons, and they clearly bother you when they occur. Yet you also participate and initiate pile ons on others. Why?
At this point you called me a liar and a “coward,” (I’m confused as to how “coward” comes into it, but I guess the insult was handy,) which kind of proves my point.
That’s why you have the reputation you do.
I point this out to you in the sincere hope of helping you. My advice is to become impossible to offend for one week. Make no insults, no matter what. See if your posting experience improves.
Or, you could lick my balls. 
Dude.
I lose my temper sometimes. Although I’d wager that if there were a way to measure it, my peak of such overreactions was some time in the past.
In any case, my single point is that by continuing to repeat the accusation that you continue to drag through unrelated threads, year after year, you imply to everyone else that they’d better not disagree with me, because the mere fact of disagreement is enough to get you jumped on. This is simply not true. It has never been true. But even the losses of tempers that might have led to this meme are largely–largely I say–a thing of the past.
If I actually? Actually? jumped on anyone every time they disagreed with me? Think about it: how many times to people AGREE with me in CS? Aren’t I frequently the odd man out? If what you continue to childishly poke me with year after year were remotely true, I’d have been banned 1,000 times over. Do the math: I disagree with people every day that I’m here. I’ve received ONE mod warning since my reinstatement.
Please, do the math, and quit with this bullshit already.
And I call you a liar and a coward, in this thread, because once again, you repeat the accusation that I have participated in a pileon. I have not. I have offered constructive advice. And further, because YOU are the one who continues to harp on “everybody” as simple hyperbole. I am not, I have not–I am repeating myself here, because you refuse to process what I’m telling you–my response to you is most emphatically NOT simply the split hair of “well, not EVERYbody.” It’s to point out that far from being simple hyperbole, “everybody” is an outrageous mischaracterization. “It never, every happens” cannot be hyperbolized as “everybody.” If I did it MOST of the time, your hyperbole excuse would be understandable. If I even did it SOME of the time, I wouldn’t go to the mat on it. But it’s an outrageous mischaracterization–only my presumption that it was laziness on your part, not malice, prevents me from calling it a lie–and to call it “hyperbole” is, yes, cowardly and dishonest.
And so you dishonestly use this current exchange as “proof” that I attack people that I disagree with. This is a lie. I am angry at you because you continue to spread lies about me. We are not disagreeing on the topic of the OP, or on a movie, or on a political discussion. My anger has absolutely fuck all to do with a disagreement. You injected, completely uncalled for, a personal attack on me, that also happened to be a lie. To suggest that for someone to be angered at that is equivalent to lashing out in rage at someone who likes different movies than I do is outrageous. And cowardly. And dishonest.
Perhaps I’m mistaken, but I don’t recall making this accusation that you are quick to temper against those who disagree with you before.
So, if you say I’ve been dragging it from thread to thread, year after you, you’ll have cites of that. May I see them.
Sure you did. You just finished one you started against SA. I recall another one you started against Libertarian. I’ve seen you in several.
I didn’t really see you offering anything constructive in the SA thread OP. You just said he was so worthless that you pit people who waste their time talking to him. It’s hard for me to see anything constructive there.
No. I process it, but it’s crap. You don’t do it to “everybody” in the literal sense (as I keep pointing out) but you do it an awful lot. I get that you don’t think so. We’ve established that you only do it when you feel you or your views have been “insulted or disrepected.” Any such soft criteria is simply in your head, and perfectly arbitrary and indistinguishable from an after the fact rationalization. That’s why I say it’s crap.
I understand why you say “lies.” You think I’m not telling the truth. To me, this is simply another example of how you turn disagreement into insult. You clearly disagree with my assessment. You call it a lie. For some reason you won’t accept that we disagree. You’re wrong, but I understand that. I don’t get “cowardly,” though. What am I doing that’s “cowardly?”
I suspect you just tossed that in because “lie” didn’t seem strong enough by itself.
You didn’t do the revenge math. Here’s what happens :
A pokes B’s left eye out (whether it’s by mistake, accident, or because A is for Asshole).
B retorts by popping A’s left eye.
A wants revenge over that, so he tears out B’s right eye with a berry spoon.
B fumbles for A’s right eye.
Both are blind. That’s the thing about revenge : it never stops. Revenge begets a new round of avenging.
A does sound like a bit of an Asshole, or a complete moron… fancy getting your remaining eye torn out by a blind person!
Which should be obvious when lissener accuses others of calling him names even though no namecalling has been done.
At least he didn’t call you “liar”, “coward”, and “asshole”. 
Oooh, I like your Double Blind studies interpretation even better!
You know, I just don’t give a damn what you saw today or what you thought about what you saw. Why come here and post this kind of crap when you could have simply walked over and smacked hell out of them?
As to your belief that if you know something is wrong while you are doing it, it’s okay I don’t know that I’ve heard anything quite so boneheaded. You are responsible for what you do when you do it and knowing it is wrong is not an excuse, as any traffic cop will tell you.
And to whomever said it, Sonny Barger was the president of the Oakland chapter of the Hell’s Angels and he was not the founder of the club. If he was ever elected President of the world wide association of Hell’s Angles, then I apologize. But I’m cranky as hell right now.
Aww, I thought this was going to be a thread bashing those on this board with 88 in their username.
I remember when I first started shaving my head (lived in Missouri at the time), I got quite a few looks and my friend (who had a buzzcut, but not shaved head), would wear a hat so people didn’t think we were neo-nazis or something.
I have been wearing a West Coast Chopper hoodie that has one of those Maltese crosses on it for years, and awhile back somebody asked if that was a nazi symbol. <confused>
I cleaned up the quote tags in your post, LouisB.
Thank you.
To be fair the west coast chopper’s symboldoes look like the Iron Cross.
