Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Besides it being an obvious trap, you absolutely admitted it was a trap, and then you said that you were intending to incriminate me either way. Don’t play these fucking games.

    You. It doesn’t magically stop being a trap in the same way that a puzzle doesn’t stop being a puzzle because the puzzle maker said that’s what it was. I even linked to the video explaining how those incriminating statements work. Don’t piss on my leg.

    Once upon a time, Socrates had a discussion about the gods with someone named Euthyphro. Socrates asked, “Are the things the gods command good because the gods command them, or do the gods command things that just happen to be good? If you say it’s the first, then saying that the gods command good things is really just saying “the gods command what the gods command,” a meaningless tautology. But if you say the gods command things that we independently judge to be good, then there must be some other source of goodness, and in that case, why don’t we follow that directly, without needing the gods?”

    Euthyphro responded “AHA! YOU’RE TRYING TO LURE ME INTO A TRAP!!! I CAUGHT YOU11!!! THAT QUESTION MAKES ME LOOK BAD EITHER WAY SO IT’S OBVIOUSLY BAD FAITH!!!” and Socrates said, “Aw, dang, you got me” and it never came up again.