[MERIT]

What if she was attacking you?

The Batlord

Kind of an entirely different argument that has no relevance to this discussion unless you're just trying to justify that time you smacked a woman cause she ****ed up your sandwich.

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Trollheart

Obviously, he'd throw his already severed hands at her!
Yeah, well I think shitting up my sandwich kind of crosses the line...

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rubber soul

Run away from her as fast as you can. You, never, ever, hit a woman. It's bad enough I saw my Mom go through verbal abuse as a kid. The idea that she could have been beaten up (she wasn't) horrifies me. Anyway, I have my own reasons for not having kids (the future in general doesn't make me optimistic), but my Mom's ex taught me how not to treat women at least.

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Chula Vista

Scariest?

Frownland in his undies, striking a Ian Anderson pose, and pretending to know how to play an acoustic guitar.

*shudders*

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Neapolitan

Ian Anderson played flute, not guitar. I guess you wouldn't know that cause he didn't play in Led Zeppelin.

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Chula Vista

Go to your room son.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

[MERIT]

Again, absolutes like this solve nothing. According to society:

It's no problem to send men off to die in a war.

It's okay for women to hit each other.

It's okay for men to hit each other.

It's okay for women to hit men.

It sounds like society views men as replaceable cogs in a machine, but every woman has to be told a thousand times a day how gorgeous and special she is.

Putting the pussy on a pedestal has gotten us nowhere, vis-a-vis equal rights. It just shifts the problem.

Frownland

Says you.

So what horrible repurcussions do you find in the never philosophy that you're so valiantly protecting society from?

Trollheart

Lord. It's the same reason (or one of them) that you don't hit kids. They're smaller/weaker than you, and less able to defend themselves. Would you kick a dog or cat that hadn't attacked you? You can't just say everyone's fair game. Men are much more capable of protecting themselves than women, and as women have only recently (like, in the last 100 years or so) become what you would call emancipated, or at least, seen as more than just pretty empty-headed objects, they don't have the history of defence and fighting that men do. So they're not as prepared for attack, they don't engage in it as much as men, and they're much more vulnerable as a result.

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