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Postby Brutland and Norden » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:27 pm

In what I do, I bear witness to man's daily attempts to butcher his fellow man. The poor and the destitute are not exempt but they are the most helpless.
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Postby Skibereen » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:28 pm

Medic?
argumentum ad logicam, seriously think about it.

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Postby Christmahanikwanzikah » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:28 pm

Skibereen wrote:Medic?


I couldn't respawn, the server wouldn't let me, I swear!

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Postby The St Timothy Isles » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:29 pm

Austria-russia wrote:
Austria-russia wrote:
Londim wrote:after he helps a woman who was being attacked.

US 'good Samaritan' left to die
A homeless man in New York City who was stabbed after coming to a woman's aid was left to die while passers-by ignored him, CCTV footage has shown.

Police said that at least 25 people walked past Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax as he bled to death on a pavement in Queens.

The 31-year-old from Guatemala was repeatedly stabbed by a man as he intervened during the attack last week.

The footage shows it was an hour and a half before somebody tried to rouse him and contacted the emergency services.

In the security camera video, a woman is followed by a man, who then appears to attack her.

Mr Tale-Yax walks toward them. Off-camera he is stabbed several times while trying to help the woman.

the forum title sounds like an onion headline

The camera captures the apparent attacker running away.

Mr Tale-Yax gives chase but collapses. He is seen lying in the street fatally wounded, as several people walk past him.

Relatives of Mr Tale-Yax said he had recently lost his job and his home.


This just makes me sad and lose faith in humanity.



it sounds like an onion headline

It does!
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Postby Austria-russia » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:32 pm

there buddy.... whoahahahahahaaha

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Postby New Amerik » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:34 pm

Happy bird 333 wrote:No


Right. Now not only has my faith in humanity left me, it burglared my sanity and raped my sense of hope as it left.
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Postby Conserative Morality » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:35 pm

Am I the only one here unaffected/surprised?
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Postby Hoyteca » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:36 pm

I have lost all faith in humanity long ago. As soon as someone makes a cure for something or invents a better lightbulb, someone else turns it into a "better" bomb. The worst, I find, are the cultures of the West, Middle East, and Africa. People are dying because someone else valued their convenience or honor too much, depending on where they are.

I guess that's why I liked the Avatar movie. It wasn't another one of those "humans good; everyone else bad" movies. Humanity's darker side wasn't glossed over. We need more movies like that, where humanity doesn't just fix its screwups by killing something else.

I know this sounds mean, but perhaps death was a better fate for him than merely surviving in a world of selfish assholes and mindless drones.

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Postby Christmahanikwanzikah » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:36 pm

Conserative Morality wrote:Am I the only one here unaffected/unsurprised?


Fix'd, but no, not really... though I'm too listless/don't care enough about New Yorkers to be affected.

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Postby The Archiepelago » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:37 pm

In general humans suck. They think completley for themselves. So what if there's a bleeding person. if it doesn't involve them, then why should the care. It's sickening how animalistic people are but oh well. I am lucky to know nice people. but there are even worse people who are around. I say get rid of them and you get rid of problems.
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Postby The St Timothy Isles » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:37 pm

I like your flag.
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Postby New Amerik » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:37 pm

New Nicksyllvania wrote:Geeze, it's only an immigrant hobo, nothing of value was lost.


No, you fool! If one immigrant hobo dies, two take it's place! Remember Them!
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Postby Londim » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:38 pm

New Nicksyllvania wrote:Geeze, it's only an immigrant hobo, nothing of value was lost.


Except, someone's life. Someone who tried to stop an attack on a woman.
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Postby Austria-russia » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:39 pm

no one deserves to die not even Hitler

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Postby Christmahanikwanzikah » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:40 pm

Hoyteca wrote:I have lost all faith in humanity long ago. As soon as someone makes a cure for something or invents a better lightbulb, someone else turns it into a "better" bomb. The worst, I find, are the cultures of the West, Middle East, and Africa. People are dying because someone else valued their convenience or honor too much, depending on where they are.

I guess that's why I liked the Avatar movie. It wasn't another one of those "humans good; everyone else bad" movies. Humanity's darker side wasn't glossed over. We need more movies like that, where humanity doesn't just fix its screwups by killing something else.

I know this sounds mean, but perhaps death was a better fate for him than merely surviving in a world of selfish assholes and mindless drones.


Avatar wasn't a "humans good; everyone else bad" movie, it was a "humans bad; everyone else good" movie. It sounds a lot like something Howard Zinn would make.

Not knocking the idea, but seriously, there's a stupid dichotomy here.

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Postby The St Timothy Isles » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:40 pm

Londim wrote:
New Nicksyllvania wrote:Geeze, it's only an immigrant hobo, nothing of value was lost.


Except, someone's life. Someone who tried to stop an attack on a woman.


Thank you.

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"The Jonas Brothers are here. They're out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans. But, boys, don't get any ideas. I have two words for you: predator drones. You will never see it coming. You think I'm joking."
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Postby New Amerik » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:40 pm

Hoyteca wrote:I have lost all faith in humanity long ago. As soon as someone makes a cure for something or invents a better lightbulb, someone else turns it into a "better" bomb. The worst, I find, are the cultures of the West, Middle East, and Africa. People are dying because someone else valued their convenience or honor too much, depending on where they are.

I guess that's why I liked the Avatar movie. It wasn't another one of those "humans good; everyone else bad" movies. Humanity's darker side wasn't glossed over. We need more movies like that, where humanity doesn't just fix its screwups by killing something else.

I know this sounds mean, but perhaps death was a better fate for him than merely surviving in a world of selfish assholes and mindless drones.


That's actually why I disliked it: good still won even when by all rights humanity should have kicked their asses and gotten that damn valuable mineral.

I was rooting for the soldiers to wipe them out, and was dissapointed when the movie made them lose.

Sometimes, being assholes are why we were able to survive and rise to power.
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Postby Conserative Morality » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:41 pm

Hoyteca wrote:I have lost all faith in humanity long ago. As soon as someone makes a cure for something or invents a better lightbulb, someone else turns it into a "better" bomb. The worst, I find, are the cultures of the West, Middle East, and Africa. People are dying because someone else valued their convenience or honor too much, depending on where they are.

I guess that's why I liked the Avatar movie. It wasn't another one of those "humans good; everyone else bad" movies. Humanity's darker side wasn't glossed over. We need more movies like that, where humanity doesn't just fix its screwups by killing something else.

I know this sounds mean, but perhaps death was a better fate for him than merely surviving in a world of selfish assholes and mindless drones.

We're all selfish assholes and mindless drones, me, you, even most Generalites. The trick, I've found, is to find the reason why we're selfish assholes and mindless drones. It makes sense from a survival standpoint, and your feeling of 'This is definitely wrong, this is definitely right' tends to erode away.

It makes life easier.
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Postby Christmahanikwanzikah » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:41 pm

Austria-russia wrote:no one deserves to die not even Hitler


...

How in the fuck do you Godwin a thread that... you know what? Never-fuckin'-mind.

>.<

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Postby The St Timothy Isles » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:42 pm

Hoyteca wrote:I have lost all faith in humanity long ago. As soon as someone makes a cure for something or invents a better lightbulb, someone else turns it into a "better" bomb. The worst, I find, are the cultures of the West, Middle East, and Africa. People are dying because someone else valued their convenience or honor too much, depending on where they are.

I guess that's why I liked the Avatar movie. It wasn't another one of those "humans good; everyone else bad" movies. Humanity's darker side wasn't glossed over. We need more movies like that, where humanity doesn't just fix its screwups by killing something else.

I know this sounds mean, but perhaps death was a better fate for him than merely surviving in a world of selfish assholes and mindless drones.


Avatar's storyline: 1.5/10
The graphics: ∞/10
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DEFCON 5
"To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe..."
--Carl Sagan
"The Jonas Brothers are here. They're out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans. But, boys, don't get any ideas. I have two words for you: predator drones. You will never see it coming. You think I'm joking."
--Barrack Obama

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Postby Londim » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:43 pm

New Amerik wrote:
Hoyteca wrote:I have lost all faith in humanity long ago. As soon as someone makes a cure for something or invents a better lightbulb, someone else turns it into a "better" bomb. The worst, I find, are the cultures of the West, Middle East, and Africa. People are dying because someone else valued their convenience or honor too much, depending on where they are.

I guess that's why I liked the Avatar movie. It wasn't another one of those "humans good; everyone else bad" movies. Humanity's darker side wasn't glossed over. We need more movies like that, where humanity doesn't just fix its screwups by killing something else.

I know this sounds mean, but perhaps death was a better fate for him than merely surviving in a world of selfish assholes and mindless drones.


That's actually why I disliked it: good still won even when by all rights humanity should have kicked their asses and gotten that damn valuable mineral.

I was rooting for the soldiers to wipe them out, and was dissapointed when the movie made them lose.

Sometimes, being assholes are why we were able to survive and rise to power.


The clue was in the resource name. Unobtanium. Really, humanity should have see that name and thought, "Well we're not getting that."
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Postby Conserative Morality » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:44 pm

Londim wrote:The clue was in the resource name. Unobtanium. Really, humanity should have see that name and thought, "Well we're not getting that."

Actually, they should have nuked the site from orbit and then renamed the mineral.
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Postby The Parkus Empire » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:44 pm

New Nicksyllvania wrote:And Hitler tried to stop people from smoking.

One good deed does not absolve someone.


And that's not a good deed. And it's fucking Godwin. Christ.
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Postby The St Timothy Isles » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:46 pm

New Nicksyllvania wrote:Gawd I think I'm getting a boner.


What? :blink:
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"To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe..."
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"The Jonas Brothers are here. They're out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans. But, boys, don't get any ideas. I have two words for you: predator drones. You will never see it coming. You think I'm joking."
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Postby Christmahanikwanzikah » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:47 pm

Londim wrote:
New Amerik wrote:
Hoyteca wrote:I have lost all faith in humanity long ago. As soon as someone makes a cure for something or invents a better lightbulb, someone else turns it into a "better" bomb. The worst, I find, are the cultures of the West, Middle East, and Africa. People are dying because someone else valued their convenience or honor too much, depending on where they are.

I guess that's why I liked the Avatar movie. It wasn't another one of those "humans good; everyone else bad" movies. Humanity's darker side wasn't glossed over. We need more movies like that, where humanity doesn't just fix its screwups by killing something else.

I know this sounds mean, but perhaps death was a better fate for him than merely surviving in a world of selfish assholes and mindless drones.


That's actually why I disliked it: good still won even when by all rights humanity should have kicked their asses and gotten that damn valuable mineral.

I was rooting for the soldiers to wipe them out, and was dissapointed when the movie made them lose.

Sometimes, being assholes are why we were able to survive and rise to power.


The clue was in the resource name. Unobtanium. Really, humanity should have see that name and thought, "Well we're not getting that."


Unobtainium's more of an engineering joke than a resource joke.

>.>

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