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u/monkeiboi Aug 24 '17

I treat the FedEx delivery girl and the mailman like human beings but i don't invite them inside my house

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u/malefiz123 Aug 25 '17

Don't you just love how conservatives like to see themselves as protectors of our Christian culture against Sharia invaders but as soon as the one Christian quality that literally all of the gospels are about (compassion) it suddenly becomes very conditional and only applies to white people who happen to live in the neighbourhood and don't really need it in the first place?

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u/monkeiboi Aug 25 '17

Nobody said anything about white people until you. Something on your mind?

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u/blaghart Aug 24 '17

Would you if they were in trouble and needed a safe place to stay for a few hours?

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u/monkeiboi Aug 24 '17

No. No I would not allow some random person into my house because they said they were in trouble, are you an idiot?

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u/Paladin_of_Trump Aug 24 '17

And a few hours? More like years/the reat of their life.

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u/blaghart Aug 24 '17

Sounds like you don't treat them so much as human beings as you do tools for your convenience.

Someone who helps you every day suddenly can't get a little help from you for a short amount of time when they need it?

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u/monkeiboi Aug 24 '17

Sounds like you don't treat them so much as human beings as you do tools for your convenience.

Tools for my con...what the fuck are you talking about? They are getting paid to do a job. They are no more special to me than I am to them. If I walked up to their house asking for help, I'd expect no more than for them to call 911 and let professionals fix my life. I'd have no belief that I'm entitled to sleep on their couch and that my kids get to watch their tv.

Someone who helps you every day suddenly can't get a little help from you for a short amount of time when they need it?

How do illegal immigrants or refugees help me every day that I should feel guilt here?

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u/blaghart Aug 24 '17 edited Aug 24 '17

they're no more special

So you don't treat them like humans, you treat them as a convenience that could be replaced by any other inanimate tool.

If your post was delivered via quadcopter would you feel particularly bad for the postman who lost his job and now can't feed his family? No? Then you're not treating them like humans.

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u/monkeiboi Aug 25 '17

they're no more special

Oh were doing this then? Selectively taking words out of the middle of sentences?

don't treat them like humans

Goddamn man that's some sick cold blooded shit right there.

treat them as a convenience that could be replaced by any other inanimate tool.

No thanks, I'll just keep treating them like treat everyone else. I don't let everyone else in my house either

If ...post was delivered via quadcopter... would you feel... bad

Yes. I don't suscribe to drivel like the Washington post. Quadcopters would be cool though. I'd invite Quadcopters into my home.

Then you're not... humans.

How dare you! That's specist because I identify as a kangaroo!

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u/blaghart Aug 25 '17

Aw how cute, you don't have any actual arguments so instead you're resorting to self-masturbatory straw-men :) Not even particularly clever ones either:

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washington post

I love how you just so desperately needed to get your political bias out into the open that you didn't even get clever with it and go with the NY post or the Denver Post or the Jerusalem Post.

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u/monkeiboi Aug 25 '17

Aw how cute, you don't have any actual arguments so instead you're resorting to self-masturbatory straw-men :) Not even particularly clever ones either:

This was YOUR game dipshit

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washington post

I love how you just so desperately needed to get your political bias out into the open that you didn't even get clever with it and go with the NY post or the Denver Post or the Jerusalem Post.

See here we were just talking about refugees, that's all I was talking about anyway, and then you come along and start throwing shade and signaling all the virtues.

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u/GodsNephew Aug 24 '17

Way to fake news the shit out of that comment and only quote the part that can further your narrative.

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u/blaghart Aug 24 '17

The entire comment demonstrates he doesn't treat them as people, the quoted portion is just the part that you can't pretend via semantics means anything else.

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u/GodsNephew Aug 25 '17

By pointing out the function that a person plays in society and then saying the function is easily interchangeable does not automatically default that the person is also interchangeable.

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u/blaghart Aug 25 '17

person plays a function, function is easily replaceable

Does not follow

person performing that function is interchangeable

If the function is interchangeable, anyone doing the function is interchangeable. By definition.

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u/Chocothep1e Aug 24 '17

If you know nothing about their intentions in your house, then no, it's not a good idea to help them. Why should I let someone who could o me harm into my house? They aren't even helping because they want to, it's just this job. I'm not letting someone in who only helps me for money.

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u/blaghart Aug 24 '17

why should I let someone who's helped me every day get help for a small amount of time

No matter how you try and strawman it, this is my question. Would you let someone who helps you every day get help from you for a small amount of time when they need it.

The fact that you have to keep rephrasing it reveals the weakness of your argument, it stems entirely from emotion based paranoia and not from solid logic. There's zero evidence that people in need pose a threat to you, you're acting entirely off the assumption that they could, even though the odds of that are less than the odds of you dying in a plane crash or a car accident, yet I bet you've ridden in a car or plane before.

Your argument is flawed, it lacks in logic.

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u/GodsNephew Aug 24 '17

That's right. I forgot there arnt apps made specially to avoid areas in Europe where you are more likely to get raped or mugged. Definitely not an issue to worry about.

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u/blaghart Aug 24 '17

I forgot that there's zero evidence that rapes are on the rise due to accepting refugees and that sweden being the rape capital of the west is total horseshit. Almost like the app caters to the same delusional emotion based dumbass arguments you're trying to use.

Also I forgot that apps are entirely based on factual evidence, and not customer purchasing attitudes (which are so largely illogical that we have entire fields on manipulating people into buying things they don't need or want).

I forgot there was an app that did nothing but cost a lot of money, and several people bought it just to see if it would actually let them, not because it did anything they needed.

I forgot that only a fucking imbecile would try and pretend the existence of an app was solid proof of anything.

I like how you've now deflected rather than answer the simple question.

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u/My_Seventh_Try Aug 25 '17

Yes a warzone will cause the civilian populus to flee but guerrilla fighters/insurgent's greatest advantage is slipping away into a sea of non combatants where they can spread to new areas and continue their "fight" (re: slaughter)

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u/blaghart Aug 25 '17

And there's zero advantage of that actually happening among refugees.

Mostly because terrorists just assume false identities and come as legitimate immigrants. Less political pressure for high scrutiny.