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WCDT Strips 3391-3395 (9th to 13th January 2017)
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Tova on 11 Jan 2017, 14:08 ---If you've given your word that there are no string attached, and you never lie, the difference matters a great deal.
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Not really; you never ask for anything; no strings attached. If, at some point in the future, when hearing of your future plans, people you've previously helped volunteer to carry out services for you in exchange for you changing your plans, then that is entirely their prerogative. You're not actually asking for anything form them so there are no strings. If anything, they're the ones attaching strings to you by making their favours in return conditional!
Case:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 11 Jan 2017, 13:32 ---I still don't get why you're over-analysing it.
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In two questions to "Argument from Motives" - > You've given up making arguments that support your claim ("In the criminal mind, or those minds for whom typical ideas of ethics are curious alien cultural artefacts, they are essentially indistinguishable.") entirely and are trying to make the discussion about my motive for asking questions about your statement instead ...
My Motive? I wanted to understand the rationale behind a statement (see above) about a subset of the human population that appeared to me to be not obvious (and that I suspect to be false). The experience is sometimes referred to as "cognitive dissonance", and many people find it highly irritating. One can resolve cognitive dissonance e.g. by dismissal ("That's obviously wrong", "Who cares?"), by attempting to silence the source of the offending statement ("We don't want that kind of talk here"), by resignation ("That's beyond me") or ... by attempting to understand the train of thought that led to the statement.
The latter one is most commonly achieved by asking questions and analysing the answers. It's also my preferred mode of dealing with cognitive dissonance. Maybe that's also the reason why I enjoy participating in online discussions & register as member of Discussion-Fora?
Anyhow - I think I have my answer.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 11 Jan 2017, 13:32 ---You seem to think that someone would care about the difference.
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Yes, I believe I do!
Tova:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 11 Jan 2017, 14:57 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 11 Jan 2017, 14:08 ---If you've given your word that there are no string attached, and you never lie, the difference matters a great deal.
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Not really; you never ask for anything; no strings attached. If, at some point in the future, when hearing of your future plans, people you've previously helped volunteer to carry out services for you in exchange for you changing your plans, then that is entirely their prerogative. You're not actually asking for anything form them so there are no strings. If anything, they're the ones attaching strings to you by making their favours in return conditional!
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Okay, fine. So maybe you could clear this up for me. My confusion arise from the original post. Why so concerned? If Bubbles volunteers to carry out services for them, then I don't see an issue.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 10 Jan 2017, 23:12 ---They may not require a direct 'price' but I'd be more concerned about the 'favour' they ask for some time later in exchange for not betraying Emily to the NSA for unauthorised access of all the classified defence data in Bubbles's head.
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You've kind of backtracked on this, just admit it and we can all move on.
brasca:
--- Quote from: Tova on 11 Jan 2017, 14:08 ---If you've given your word that there are no string attached, and you never lie, the difference matters a great deal.
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For me it's Little Bird.
I also thought of Annie Lennox since Upscale Envy looks very similar to her in that Sweet Dreams video. I was just a kid at the time, but she scared the hell out of me then. This lookalike has a similar effect all these years later.
zmeiat_joro:
You do know that Desire is based on Annie Lennox and David Bowie?
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