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Post by Optimus on Mar 8, 2018 0:19:47 GMT -5
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Post by mikey on Mar 8, 2018 1:09:55 GMT -5
I get the feeling that we're all getting jerked around
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Post by Vince524 on Mar 8, 2018 12:44:26 GMT -5
Looks like rigamortis has set in. Oh wait.
But really, how stupid can you be? Thank God it was only him that died and not an innocent bystander.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 17:59:34 GMT -5
That's kind of the thing. He had the right to do whatever dumbass thing he wanted with his own life (and man, is that dumb), but doing it while barreling down a road when you could take someone else down with you -- yeah, he had no right to do that.
Speaking for myself, the mere fact that, if I died, this is the way people would forever remember me as the person who did this dumbass thing -- yeah, that would be enough to make me refrain.
I mean, why not pull over to the side of the road, do your thing, and then drive on?
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Post by Vince524 on Mar 8, 2018 20:25:37 GMT -5
That's kind of the thing. He had the right to do whatever dumbass thing he wanted with his own life (and man, is that dumb), but doing it while barreling down a road when you could take someone else down with you -- yeah, he had no right to do that. Speaking for myself, the mere fact that, if I died, this is the way people would forever remember me as the person who did this dumbass thing -- yeah, that would be enough to make me refrain. I mean, why not pull over to the side of the road, do your thing, and then drive on? On a nearly totally unrelated note, ever hear of the Atlanta Child Murders? So I read a book by John Douglas once, he was one of the founders of the criminal profiling unit. If you've watched early Criminal Minds, you've seen some of the real cases he profiled. Anywhoo, so part of the profile was that the killer might return to the scene to masturbate. Some guy who's wife was pregnant and couldn't have sex pulled over to the side of the road to do his thing. He got caught. They thought he was the killer. He was alibied or something. (This is all going by memory.) The case was high profile, so lots of people found out. Even the president at the time was briefed on it. I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread. |
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Post by Optimus on Mar 8, 2018 21:34:05 GMT -5
This is only tangentially related but, given the topic of the article, it's kind of an amusing coincidence. So, I attended a talk today reviewing a research study in the area of moral psychology and in the study they used a "moral disgust" task that was originally invented by Jonathan Haidt. Basically, this type of research attempts to study how people reason about things they find morally disgusting and what factors are related to moral reasoning (it's related to something called "moral dumbfounding" which is when you judge something to be either morally good or bad (usually bad) but can't come up with a good, rational reason why). This is one of the items from the task: "A man goes to the supermarket once a week and buys a dead chicken. But before cooking the chicken, he has sexual intercourse with it. Then he thoroughly cooks it and eats it." |
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Post by robeiae on Mar 8, 2018 21:35:18 GMT -5
This makes me think of that guy from Jackass...Ryan Dunn? 'Course, his stupidity did kill another person.
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Post by Vince524 on Mar 8, 2018 21:42:41 GMT -5
This is only tangentially related but, given the topic of the article, it's kind of an amusing coincidence. So, I attended a talk today reviewing a research study in the area of moral psychology and in the study they used a "moral disgust" task that was originally invented by Jonathan Haidt. Basically, this type of research attempts to study how people reason about things they find morally disgusting and what factors are related to moral reasoning (it's related to something called "moral dumbfounding" which is when you judge something to be either morally good or bad (usually bad) but can't come up with a good, rational reason why). This is one of the items from the task: "A man goes to the supermarket once a week and buys a dead chicken. But before cooking the chicken, he has sexual intercourse with it. Then he thoroughly cooks it and eats it."How does he serve it? Creamy Chicken? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 22:06:30 GMT -5
This is only tangentially related but, given the topic of the article, it's kind of an amusing coincidence. So, I attended a talk today reviewing a research study in the area of moral psychology and in the study they used a "moral disgust" task that was originally invented by Jonathan Haidt. Basically, this type of research attempts to study how people reason about things they find morally disgusting and what factors are related to moral reasoning (it's related to something called "moral dumbfounding" which is when you judge something to be either morally good or bad (usually bad) but can't come up with a good, rational reason why). This is one of the items from the task: "A man goes to the supermarket once a week and buys a dead chicken. But before cooking the chicken, he has sexual intercourse with it. Then he thoroughly cooks it and eats it."Does he serve it to any unknowing person? Does he have unprotected sex with the chicken and then with an unknowing person to whom he might potentially transfer any disease one might pick up from shtupping a dead chicken? If not, it's gross and creepy, and if I caught my boyfriend doing it, he'd be my ex boyfriend (I'm fussy that way), but it is not immoral. (There's a chapter like this in Portnoy's Complaint, except worse. The then-teenage MC masturbates with the raw liver that his unknowing mother later cooks and serves the family for dinner. Ew. That's immoral, since I'm certain his family would not have eaten it had they known.) |
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