Downvotes are much more salient than upvotes and it is already too easy to get fed up with moronic behavior as it is. Being able to tell that there are three asshats that downvoted my “+7 (10-3) karma” comment would just be irritating.
Why is this downvoted twice? No wonder he’s concerned about it. Sheesh.
This is a completely legitimate concern that I hadn’t thought of, especially not in the terms he expressed it. We’re only bags of chemicals, after all {exaggeration}. It shouldn’t surprise us that we have to pull an Odysseus once in a while (or be one of the sailors with wax in our ears; I’m still working on the metaphor here).
[Anyone have a better link for that story, the one about tying himself to the mast, and manipulating his men to get through the perils of sirens and whirlpools?]
This is a completely legitimate concern that I hadn’t thought of, especially not in the terms he expressed it. We’re only bags of chemicals, after all {exaggeration}. It shouldn’t surprise us that we have to pull an Odysseus once in a while (or be one of the sailors with wax in our ears; I’m still working on the metaphor here).
That’s a good analogy. I know that given either human psychology in general or my own psychology in particular I’m better off not having access to certain types of information. Yet if it is available—and particularly if it flashes up somewhere on the screen—it takes huge amounts of willpower to refrain from looking. So tying myself to the mast and issuing wax earplugs to the sailors sounds like a good idea!
Why is this downvoted twice? No wonder he’s concerned about it. Sheesh.
This is a completely legitimate concern that I hadn’t thought of, especially not in the terms he expressed it. We’re only bags of chemicals, after all {exaggeration}. It shouldn’t surprise us that we have to pull an Odysseus once in a while (or be one of the sailors with wax in our ears; I’m still working on the metaphor here).
[Anyone have a better link for that story, the one about tying himself to the mast, and manipulating his men to get through the perils of sirens and whirlpools?]
I’ll think about it wedrifid. Thanks.
That’s a good analogy. I know that given either human psychology in general or my own psychology in particular I’m better off not having access to certain types of information. Yet if it is available—and particularly if it flashes up somewhere on the screen—it takes huge amounts of willpower to refrain from looking. So tying myself to the mast and issuing wax earplugs to the sailors sounds like a good idea!