Ageism

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Population control at its best.

Just remove warning labels, much easier.

But the law suits, herr General...

[Soviet Technocracy2]

Just remove warning labels, much easier.

No, there should be warning labels. Also I did say they should receive proper training.

[Hammer Britannia]

Just remove warning labels, much easier.

But the law suits, herr General...

Can't get a lawyer if you're dead.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

But the law suits, herr General...

Can't get a lawyer if you're dead.

Positively Machiavellian. I dig.

[USS Monitor]

the Boomers need to STFU.

They really do.

[Yusseria]

The mass of anti millennial bullshit is ageism. My cousin once said that we are the least patriotic generation ever. I told her to go to the VA and tell the Iraq and Afghan war vets that. Millenials are called lazy while working 50-60 hour weeks every week. We are called spoiled while our minimum wage is effectively half of what it was in 1968. We are called stupid with the highest number of degrees per capita. Everyone is upset we didn't buy houses and get married immediatly after the great recession.

We catch this shit from the generation who spit on Vietnam veterans. From the generation who invented being a hippy. From the generation was handed a living wage at every job. from the generation who dropped out. From the generation who caused the great recession. Gen X can talk shit (and that's all it is) but the Boomers need to STFU.

Damn hippies.

[Borg Cat]

So you're forty, right?
I'm much more younger than you.
Do you want kill people over forty? giving firearms to younger? sending to gulag older men to die or to shoot them?
Hm.. interesting.
Give me firearms first. Then can I shoot you? I just want to ensure my rights being respected.
You're too old, so why to worry? Just give me the firearms. Or the Stalin's Kaiser position. I as Borg surely I can take care of your ideas.
That's ageism affairs.

[Heloin]

Population control at its best.

Just remove warning labels, much easier.

I propose giving everyone jetpacks.

[Soviet Technocracy2]

I propose giving everyone jetpacks.

I mean they would be useful for getting around.
Tie them into an automated system to prevent collisions.

[Heloin]

I propose giving everyone jetpacks.

I mean they would be useful for getting around.
Tie them into an automated system to prevent collisions.

No automated system. Just chaos and explosions filling the skies.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

If we are to restrict the essential rights of democracy and humanity by age then I posit this question:

If humans are to be given rights above the rest of the animal kingdom simply because of intelligence, is it not thusly logical that one should test based on intelligence rather than age? The mentally handicapped may suffer problems, but that is what it means to discriminate due to intelligence.

I have thus proven this argument of intelligence being the justification for ageism to be fallacious, or at the very least, ableist. What more is to be said?

[Soviet Technocracy2]

I have thus proven this argument of intelligence being the justification for ageism to be fallacious, or at the very least, ableist. What more is to be said?

It’s not like people can’t both be free and afforded protections.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

I have thus proven this argument of intelligence being the justification for ageism to be fallacious, or at the very least, ableist. What more is to be said?

It’s not like people can’t both be free and afforded protections.

Ahh, my friend, you have not also spectacularly missed the point, but likewise you do not comprehend the argument being put forward: it is an argumentum ad absurdum, meaning to take things to their logical extreme. That, therefore, is the logical extreme of ageism as a proxy for intelligence. I disclosed that I was against barriers to democratic and human rights at the beginning, did I not?

[Sapientia Et Bellum]

I don't understand the point of this thread

[Soviet Technocracy2]

I disclosed that I was against barriers to democratic and human rights at the beginning, did I not?

Democracy and human rights are not the same thing, and I did not mean barriers.

[Ifreann]

I don't understand the point of this thread

I don't think there is a point to this thread.

[Heloin]

I don't understand the point of this thread

Technocracy2 seems to find the thought that there are people older then forty incredulous, therefor we need to give little kids machine guns. What's not to make sense?

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

I disclosed that I was against barriers to democratic and human rights at the beginning, did I not?

Democracy and human rights are not the same thing, and I did not mean barriers.

Perhaps not, but democracy is a key part of human rights: it is the call to self-determination, to freedom. You are attempting to divert my point away as I currently see no counter argument in your statements.

[Soviet Technocracy2]

Technocracy2 seems to find the thought that there are people older then forty incredulous, therefor we need to give little kids machine guns. What's not to make sense?

I’ve slept with people over forty, but they don’t give me grift. And kids need machine guns regardless.

[Conserative Morality]

Logan's Run Now

[Soviet Technocracy2]

Perhaps not, but democracy is a key part of human rights: it is the call to self-determination, to freedom. You are attempting to divert my point away as I currently see no counter argument in your statements.

Self determination is self determination. I didn’t disagree with your point.

[Farnhamia]

Technocracy2 seems to find the thought that there are people older then forty incredulous, therefor we need to give little kids machine guns. What's not to make sense?

I’ve slept with people over forty, but they don’t give me grift. And kids need machine guns regardless.

Enough. Stop it with the "kids need guns now" routine. One more time and this thread will be shut down and you'll have a warning for advocating illegal activity on your record.

[Heloin]

Logan's Run Now

NO! Don't go in there! You don't have to die!

[USS Monitor]

If we are to restrict the essential rights of democracy and humanity by age then I posit this question:

If humans are to be given rights above the rest of the animal kingdom simply because of intelligence, is it not thusly logical that one should test based on intelligence rather than age? The mentally handicapped may suffer problems, but that is what it means to discriminate due to intelligence.

I have thus proven this argument of intelligence being the justification for ageism to be fallacious, or at the very least, ableist. What more is to be said?

The way we assign rights is not recognized by the rest of the animal kingdom. Plenty of animals have their own systems separate from ours and would favor their own kind above humans. The fact that human laws place humans above animals is only because they are HUMAN laws. It has nothing to do with intelligence.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

I mean they would be useful for getting around.
Tie them into an automated system to prevent collisions.

No automated system. Just chaos and explosions filling the skies.

Natural selection.