I'd agree with that. Although randomly killing strangers on a bus isn't cool
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Sun 10 Aug 2008, 7:09,
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well...
...there are times that i see your point. then again, 99% of humans are worthless dung, so the random part isn't really a problem. and, we don't know if this was truly random - maybe the dead guy was slamming his seat back on the guy's knees. maybe he smelled like cheap cologne. maybe he played bad disco on his mp3 player loudly enough to annoy the people around him. maybe he voted conservative.
we just don't have all the facts. so, it's more likely that he deserved it.
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Sun 10 Aug 2008, 7:13,
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we just don't have all the facts. so, it's more likely that he deserved it.
the worthless thing is relative to other people.
and I'd be bloody annoyed if someone decapitated me on a bus just out of the blue.
Although I can understand the overwhelming desire to do it sometimes.
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Sun 10 Aug 2008, 7:17,
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Although I can understand the overwhelming desire to do it sometimes.
it wouldn't be you as the victim, you're a good person.
it would be someone who is nasty and makes people want to behead them.
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Sun 10 Aug 2008, 7:20,
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aye there's the rub
other people may not measure me as a good person, but as a person they wish to behead.
I think this will generalise, such that: for every person, Bob, there probably exists another person who values Bob as good, and another person that wishes to chop Bob's head off.
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Sun 10 Aug 2008, 7:26,
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I think this will generalise, such that: for every person, Bob, there probably exists another person who values Bob as good, and another person that wishes to chop Bob's head off.
of course, i do understand that.
but i still get in these moods a lot, when some ignorant simpleton breaks 48 rules of the standard social contract and then becomes loud and rude when gently told that s/he is being a problem. these are the people who i suspect are being beheaded, not the ones who are just mild pains in the ass.
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Sun 10 Aug 2008, 7:30,
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oh yeah I see that every day.
although I don't normally carry a machete.
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Sun 10 Aug 2008, 7:32,
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i always carry a knife.
a few years ago i was stopped by the cops and they asked if i had any weapons. "just a knife," i said. they asked why and i told them i'd carried a jacknife every day since i was a little kid. i don't think they got it, but a swiss army knife is tough to kill people.
thankfully i'm a determined person.
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Sun 10 Aug 2008, 7:39,
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thankfully i'm a determined person.
same here, but mine's only got a blade length of a couple of inches.
I'm sure there's a length gag waiting to be done...
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Sun 10 Aug 2008, 7:44,
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Nothing peaks people's hind-brain responses like being in a confined space on a dangerous machine with noisy smelly strangers.
On a purely biological level it can be understood as a survival instinct. But you'd have to be seriously negleted and isolated as a person to get as far as that guy.
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