... and who is proficient at recognizing when it is appropriate (and effectively how) to hurt or help anyone deliberately. 'To gadfly or not to gadfly' – that is our aporia.My mother long ago defining a gentleman as a man who never hurt anyone by accident ... — tim wood
DON'T GET VACCINATED! :clap: :mask:[ ... ] Winston Churchill remarked on acknowledging the need to "bash one's opponent on the snout." I am not advocating snout-bashing. But when do the gloves come off? When has civility run its course? How ultimately does right prevail over wrong, reason exhausted, if not by snout-bashing, whether metaphorical or literal?
...How ultimately does right prevail over wrong...?
Winston Churchill remarked on acknowledging the need to "bash one's opponent on the snout." I am not advocating snout-bashing. But when do the gloves come off? — tim wood
Like T Clark, I am not a gentleman. — Bitter Crank
She knew a thing or two - and who knows when and how to stop being patient! Being a gentleman I associate with a kind of knowledge, of which for a long time I had the faux kind.in the words of the now obscure 20th century philosopher Lana Turner, "A gentleman is simply a patient wolf." — Tom Storm
... and who is proficient at recognizing when it is appropriate (and effectively how) to hurt or help anyone deliberately. 'To gadfly or not to gadfly' – that is our aporia. — 180 Proof
If you willfully participate in the ostracization of people for exercising their inalienable right to bodily autonomy, you were never a gentleman to begin with. — Tzeentch
This just nonsense from someone whose brain is just idling and not doing anything except regurgitating half-cooked stupidity got from somewhere. Do you really suppose you have an "inalienable right to bodily autonomy"? Or maybe I do not know what you mean. What do you mean?their inalienable right to bodily autonomy, — Tzeentch
If you willfully participate in the ostracization of people for exercising their inalienable right to bodily autonomy, you were never a gentleman to begin with. — Tzeentch
Good point. There seems to be a tendency to grant or deny the right to bodily autonomy in line with our political agendas. — Apollodorus
It's not punishment, it is making sure that you face the consequences of your own behavior. — T Clark
If someone has to 'make sure' of it, it wasn't a consequence was it, prior to the making sure?
The consequences of our actions are usually considered to be those things which result from them without someone having to intervene to make it so. — Isaac
There is a long history of requiring vaccination before someone can participate in public life. — T Clark
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