I think that all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not! But I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!
Humans are awesome, if you don't think so - jump out of the window.
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;19608349]The analogy was used to show the difference between taking action and simply ignoring the problem, not my fault you want to argue semantics.[/QUOTE]
When the fuck did this have anything to do with semantics? All I'm saying is that if you're going to try and make a comparison, at least try and make the two things [i]comparable[/i] in the slightest.
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;19610900]When the fuck did this have anything to do with semantics? All I'm saying is that if you're going to try and make a comparison, at least try and make the two things [I]comparable[/I] in the slightest.[/QUOTE]
A better comparison than something that's relatable to every-day occurances if you bother to read the basic point of how ignoring something rather than taking whatever little action you can to prevent it from getting worse actually fits pretty well? Alright.
Let's say people have disposable elephants and they just keep tossing them everywhere and it's making a big-ass mess because now there's alot of god-damn elephants everywhere. You can either:
Recycle YOUR elephants, or
Toss your elephants like everyone else and try to ignore the growing stampede of elephants outside. "But there's no such things as disposable elephants that's stupid".
Or how about there's a wildfire started by a cigarette, you can either:
Put out your cigarette properly so you don't trigger ANOTHER fire elsewhere, or
Toss your lit cigarette like all the other dumb monkeys and start another fire. "But that's dumb fire and trash are nothing alike".
What you're basically saying is that I can't call someone's room a pig-sty because pigs don't have personal belongings to have littering their pens.
Unless you just want me to re-word my original tooth-ache analogy.
"Oh, I have a toothache. Meh, whatever."
vs.
"Oh, I have a toothache, guess I better do SOMETHING about it."
ugh, look the whole point of Avatar was, james Cameron was high one night after comming home from a pro-indian rally and wrote a script about the oppresssion of the humans on these people, also the script had them trying to enslave the big blue people, plus the time is like 2550 or something on earth, the whole thing was a crappy storyline which was saved by it's awsome chicks and 3D effects
There was once a species that lived on a planet, it was new and fresh and growing fast... too fast. Every second of every day they would belch out thousands of tonnes of poisonous gas, deadly to almost all other organisms living on that world. Eventually the planet reached tipping point, and most of life on that world perished.
No, not humanity, but blue-green bacteria almost 2 billion years ago. Their actions killed an entire world, yet it paved the way for almost every living thing we see today; without them we would have no oxygen atmosphere.
Humans and humanity are just another piece of nature. You wouldn't call a beaver's dam or a bee's hive unnatural, so why a skyscraper?
We shouldn't look at things like global warming or deforestation in the context of 'hurting' the earth, we should look at it in the context of our own well-being and survival.
:wtc:
I cringe every time I see the title of this thread.
OP has a good point but is a bit of an ass
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;19611109]A better comparison than something that's relatable to every-day occurances if you bother to read the basic point of how ignoring something rather than taking whatever little action you can to prevent it from getting worse actually fits pretty well? Alright.
Let's say people have disposable elephants and they just keep tossing them everywhere and it's making a big-ass mess because now there's alot of god-damn elephants everywhere. You can either:
Recycle YOUR elephants, or
Toss your elephants like everyone else and try to ignore the growing stampede of elephants outside. "But there's no such things as disposable elephants that's stupid".
Or how about there's a wildfire started by a cigarette, you can either:
Put out your cigarette properly so you don't trigger ANOTHER fire elsewhere, or
Toss your lit cigarette like all the other dumb monkeys and start another fire. "But that's dumb fire and trash are nothing alike".
What you're basically saying is that I can't call someone's room a pig-sty because pigs don't have personal belongings to have littering their pens.
Unless you just want me to re-word my original tooth-ache analogy.
"Oh, I have a toothache. Meh, whatever."
vs.
"Oh, I have a toothache, guess I better do SOMETHING about it."[/QUOTE]
All of those analogies are so far removed from the original concept it astounds me. Here is a real comparison:
"Oh no. It has snowed heavily and there is snow everywhere. Living in Britain, and not being prepared for these events, things have ground to a halt. Two days later, the snow has started to thaw but now the pavements [sidewalks] are icy and slippery. I nearly slipped today. This is a problem for everyone, but there is ice everywhere and it is guaranteed that you will slip and fall and so doing something about it would be far too much effort for the average person.
I can either:
1. Ignore the problem like everyone else. Even if I try and do something, it will make only a trivial effect at best.
2. Clear my driveway and the path outside my house. Now it is easier to get my car out of my drive and it is less likely that I will slip outside my own home or, even worse, have someone else slip outside my home and perhaps sue me.
3. Clear all of the streets and solve the problem for everyone. Maybe if everyone in the country took up this option we could be rid of icy pavements [sidewalks] for the foreseeable future. Let's be honest though; option three is never going to happen."
[QUOTE=OvB;19584880]
Everything you see in this picture is a Galaxy much like our own. Tell me that we are the only form of life in the universe, considering this is only in one direction.[/QUOTE]
1 Direction and not very far either in the scope of the universe.
To put it into perspective. You seeing about 1 Square CM of a football field. In that picture.
There must be something out there, wether its just some single celled organism or a race so old if we ever found them it would blow our minds.
We just dont know... sadly
About the video from Nick on the 1st page. If aliens are advanced enough to fly here and want to hide... don't you think they'd be capable of doing so? If they wanted to be seen, wouldn't they just confront us?
Just a thought.
[QUOTE=Eleventeen;19584072]Astronauts believe in aliens and say that they KNOW that aliens exist. Neil Armstrong has said over radio transmissions to NASA that aliens on the moon wanted them to leave it when they first landed.[/QUOTE]
You best be trolling. :colbert:
He he he. Anti humans, They must hate them selves for being humans.
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Really, what's so bad about this?
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;19623353]All of those analogies are so far removed from the original concept it astounds me. Here is a real comparison:
"Oh no. It has snowed heavily and there is snow everywhere. Living in Britain, and not being prepared for these events, things have ground to a halt. Two days later, the snow has started to thaw but now the pavements [sidewalks] are icy and slippery. I nearly slipped today. This is a problem for everyone, but there is ice everywhere and it is guaranteed that you will slip and fall and so doing something about it would be far too much effort for the average person.
I can either:
1. Ignore the problem like everyone else. Even if I try and do something, it will make only a trivial effect at best.
2. Clear my driveway and the path outside my house. Now it is easier to get my car out of my drive and it is less likely that I will slip outside my own home or, even worse, have someone else slip outside my home and perhaps sue me.
3. Clear all of the streets and solve the problem for everyone. Maybe if everyone in the country took up this option we could be rid of icy pavements [sidewalks] for the foreseeable future. Let's be honest though; option three is never going to happen."[/QUOTE]
You helped make is snow? That's nuts. D:
My comparisons are more valid in terms of your actions possibly CONTRIBUTING to the problem.
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