# By Rush's Ears.... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 8, 2001, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-rushs-ears/86196 "2001-10-08T22:13:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-rushs-ears/86196/141 "2001-10-15T19:22:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \* > **Anyone who joyfully revels in someone else’s deafness like this is an “asshole” in my book.** Even if the sufferer deserves it? > [@](#): > > \*\*If you have a point you want to make about that particular thread, spit it out. But I don’t care much for this “coy thread links” stuff. \*\* I guess it’s too much to ask you to figure things out for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-rushs-ears/86196/142 "2001-10-15T20:12:07Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by jab1 \* \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \* > **Anyone who joyfully revels in someone else’s deafness like this is an “asshole” in my book.** Even if the sufferer deserves it? So you think that someone, on the basis of their political thoughts and/or sense of humor, deserves to lose their hearing? You are a sick, pathetic, disgusting individual and I fear for those around you. I hope you don’t procreate. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-rushs-ears/86196/143 "2001-10-15T23:51:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jab1 \* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \* > > Anyone who joyfully revels in someone else’s deafness like this is an “asshole” in my book. > > Even if the sufferer deserves it? Oh. I get it. YOU get to decide who “deserves” what disability. How nice for you. Oh, by the way, the rest of us have decided that _you_ “deserve” the various bits of bad luck and misfortune you have suffered in your life. Yep. It’s all poetic justice, after all. Feels good to just _know_ that stuff, huh? > [@](#): > > If you have a point you want to make about that particular thread, spit it out. But I don’t care much for this “coy thread links” stuff. I guess it’s too much to ask you to figure things out for yourself. [/QUOTE] :rolleyes: I guess it’s beyond you to understand that I don’t care to play the passive-aggressive “I’ll let you figure it out, because I don’t want to _really_ make my own point” crap. Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-rushs-ears/86196/144 "2001-10-16T00:00:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Even if the sufferer deserves it? Interesting dichotmy. An atheist playing god. You sir, are a monster. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-rushs-ears/86196/145 "2001-10-16T00:24:29Z")
“Playing god” is when the state decides to sentence someone to death and then executes him. Or, later, decides to spare him. It was not my decision that Limbaugh go deaf and I would not have made it happen even if I had the power to do so. I’m just watching it happen (and hoping he learns from it). As to whether I would have prevented it, I probably would have, but I would have regretted it later if he never changed and kept spewing forth his mis-informative radio show. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-rushs-ears/86196/146 "2001-10-16T17:04:20Z")
Jab1, you’re a vindictive asshole. You have put yourself in a position where you are the judge of the righteousness of a person’s suffering or punishment. This is exactly what God is purported to do in the Bible. It’s not merely the taking, or sparing, of life. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-rushs-ears/86196/147 "2001-10-16T20:39:25Z")
Excuse me, but I have some important pornography to look at. Toodles… ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-rushs-ears/86196/148 "2001-10-16T21:27:52Z")
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