# Pitting Max\_S **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 8, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074 "2022-02-08T00:26:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 41
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/801 "2022-10-17T14:10:00Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > I would redact “reasonable” and insert “incredibly dense” in its place. An incredibly dense person interested in honest debate. Yes, probably. And add a splash of racism for flavor. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/802 "2022-10-17T14:13:51Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > He doesn’t give the impression of having voluntarily interacted with _any_ other human face to face to any significant degree. Yeah, some people mistake the internet for society when it’s really just zero-stakes bullshitting with neither risk nor reward. Actual societal pressure is a crucible that - for most of us - burn away the stupidest bits of what we’ve absorbed throughout adolescence. ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/803 "2022-10-17T15:50:34Z")
Another case of a “conservative” believing (or pretending to believe) that pregnancy goes perfectly almost 100% of the time. There could never be any medical emergencies that require treatment, much less failure of hormones to “rewire” the mother’s brain. Maybe she doesn’t even want it “rewired” because she doesn’t want to be a mother! But it’ll be okay, just order her to carry the pregnancy to term and her little woman brain will eventually get rewired and she’ll start acting like a good resident of Gilead, er Florida. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/804 "2022-10-17T16:08:34Z")
At least he admits it’s not his best post. That makes it AOK, right? Right? ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/805 "2022-10-17T16:53:25Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Actual societal pressure is a crucible that - for most of us - burn away the stupidest bits of what we’ve absorbed throughout adolescence. As I get older I’ve become convinced that nothing ever gets fully burned away. Instead we just stomp it down in the ashcan of our minds. But it’s there, lurking. The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory is one manifestation of this. But really I think of senile dementia and the truly vile and unexpected things that can come out of people’s mouths when their internal filters melt like a pile of sugar in the rain. I’ve known two different older people who never consciously said a racist thing or expressed a racist idea in their life, suddenly start spewing epithets when slightly stressed. Much to the utter, shocked horror of their adult children. Basically some of us can look forward to becoming genuinely shitty people as we decline AND then die in horrible pain and anguish. This cheery hijack brought to you by Monday, the glorious start to the traditional work week and its never-ending toil 🙂. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/806 "2022-10-18T02:39:39Z")
Yeah, I haven’t seen Birth of a Nation and didn’t notice the reference. I was very much being a smartass (dumbass, it turns out). Sorry. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/807 "2022-10-18T06:02:29Z")
Sure, asshole, sure. Guess you realized your whistle wasn’t pitched as high as you hoped. Just sorry a normally-astute poster like @ASL_v2.0 actually is going along with your trolling bullshit there. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/808 "2022-10-18T07:02:19Z")
C’mon! He just repeated the closest thing to _The Blood Libel_ you can accuse African American men of, a desire to rape White women so insatiable that it can only be controlled by enslavement! Who could possibly find that offensive? I mean, he even said it was a dumbass thing to say! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/809 "2022-10-18T07:13:18Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > He previously tried to, by his own admission, “rules lawyer” the Holocaust. Could you provide a link to the post or thread where that happened, please? ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/810 "2022-10-18T13:19:16Z")
I see you haven’t been to the other forum in the last day or so. ETA: @Monty > [@Did the Nazis break the law? Did the Nazis follow illegal orders?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-nazis-break-the-law-did-the-nazis-follow-illegal-orders/918169): > > I’ve always thought the Nuremberg trials make for an interesting part of history, particularly the charges of “crimes against humanity”. I am much underread on this topic, but my impression is that Nazi crimes against humanity were, for the most part, legal at the time and in the jurisdiction where they were committed. This stems from my strong theory of national sovereignty. The Nazis were very thorough in their transformation of the German state; they appear to have gone through all the motio… ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/811 "2022-10-18T14:14:41Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > I see you haven’t been to the other forum in the last day or so. I have now. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/812 "2022-10-18T16:17:19Z")
A few months ago I was convinced he was a troll who got his jollies out of posting provocative racist and misogynistic shit. Now I’m convinced he’s a true believer. He really believes that if the 12 men, good and true, acquitted the lynchers, it’s all good. If the procurement of the poison gas was in accordance with procedure, load up the gas chambers. If the law says black people are property, their rape and murder isn’t a crime. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/813 "2022-10-18T16:30:29Z")
Don’t we have another poster who says similar things about slavery? Something about slaves deserved whatever they got if they got captured because it was the law? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/814 "2022-10-18T16:46:39Z")
Not sure, you may actually be thinking about @Max_S, as I’m pretty sure that he has expressed that view. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/815 "2022-10-18T17:01:14Z")
No, not **Max**. **Smapti** maybe? Something about if he found escaped slaves, he would return them even if he could let them go and no one would ever know. He would return them because it was “the law”. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/816 "2022-10-18T17:04:11Z")
There’s someone else that takes the position ‘The law is the law is the law so it’s correct by definition’. Can’t remember the name but they also had a real problem with voluntary euthanasia and suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/817 "2022-10-18T17:10:16Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > No, not **Max**. **Smapti** maybe? > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Can’t remember the name but they also had a real problem with voluntary euthanasia and suicide. Yes to Smapti on the first count, and I also remember the second about him as well. > [@Smapti is Pitted](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-a-coward-a-fascist-and-an-idiot/688907/447): > > According to the article you yourself cited; [QUOTE=Your own cite] Turner was highly intelligent, and learned how to read and write at a young age. He grew up deeply religious and was often seen fasting, praying or immersed in reading the stories of the Bible… He frequently had visions, which he interpreted as messages from God. These visions greatly influenced his life. For instance, when Turner was 21 years old he ran away from his owner, Samuel Turner, but returned a month later after beco… ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/818 "2022-10-18T17:37:23Z")
Yes, that’s him. Another gem from that thread: > [@Smapti is Pitted](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/474): > > I’m saying there is no such thing as an “evil order” because there is no such thing as “evil”. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/819 "2022-10-18T18:14:21Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Something about if he found escaped slaves, he would return them even if he could let them go and no one would ever know. He would return them because it was “the law”. In this very thread, Max said he said he would not harbor a fugitive slave because it would be an illegal and therefore immoral act. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/820 "2022-10-18T18:17:06Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > In this very thread, Max said he said he would not harbor a fugitive slave because it would be an illegal and therefore immoral act. Right, fair enough on the smapti thing, I didn’t remember that. But Max also has said the same. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074.md?page=40) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074.md?page=42)