A thread is going about like this:
OP: Here's evidence of proposition A! Isn't that neat?
Court Jester: Hey, the picture is silly!
Me: Hey, cool. I don't have access to the original academic article, do you?
Idiot: Hey, that rigorous scientific evidence goes against the anecdotal evidence I gathered in an entirely different domain. You're evidence is wrong.
Even six months ago, I would have run that idiot through with a verbal sword. Not today.
But man do I want to.
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There's a saying, that an armed society is a polite society.
ReplyDeleteIn my darker moments, I wonder what would happen if we could give idiots nasty zaps through their devices.
Do you know that from somewhere other than Heinlein, Jesse Cox?
ReplyDeleteIt was one of the weirder things a friend of mine used to say often, but I don't know where he got it -- Heinlein is plausible.
ReplyDeleteHis go-to example was always Shogunate Japan, "where a six-foot razor blade was considered a fashion accessory." I brought up the American western frontier, and his position was that it held -- you might shoot each other and drink, but you'd always tip your hat in the morning. I think the Italian Mafia was another example.