Joe_Cavalry All Day Every Day

Why does he have to offer you anything of value at all? Why do you even think he cares about you, or what you think of his music.

Let's say he's a rapper with a great big ass drum that you can hear from anywhere on the island... And he raps through this conch shell that along with all the tidal caves does a terrific job of amplifying his voice.

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Cool so Einstein leaves you behind but would have taken you along back to civilization if you would have just shared a bit of your coconut cream pie...

I'd say you came up short in that deal.

If you'd have decided to cooperate you'd be taking a nice warm bath rather than living through another fifty years of sand in your shorts wondering how that guy with the weird hairdo managed to make a outboard engine out of coconut shells and lizard intestines.

I've been studying women since I was five.

I've almost got my associate's degree...

Just twenty more years.

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Well joe, maybe I'll come to oneness with the words of Ron Burgundy over time.

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Nice to meetcha, oh by the way.

Of course I don't know who you am. It's my first day here.

If you are trying to rile me up it's not working.

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I like to deconstruct what people say. It doesn't really matter to me if they believe what they say or not. It about arguing a side for me.

Sorry if this disrupts your agitation plans.

On the plus side I'm having fun.

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You think that music or literature, philosophy or theology don't require critical thinking skills?

A degree in Literature for example requires writing any number of comparison and contrast papers. That activity is the essence of critical thinking.

The society you propose is a horror and counter to the very impulses that provoke social cooperation.

I don't think that you've thought this through very well.

I never said that Einstein was going to take your stuff.

But let me ask you this if Einstein figured out a way off the Island and decided that you didn't get to go because you didn't do any of the work to figure out the solution and you didn't share your food with him while he figure it out, you be okay with that right?

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Who or what decides what activity constitutes work?

If you happened to be stuck on a deserted island with Einstein, and all he wanted to do was sit around in the rain and think and eat coconuts would you have any justification for killing him because he didn't want to help you build a hut?

What about if what Einstein was thinking about was a way to use the available resource to get you off safely off the island?

Or what if Einstein given time to ponder could figure out how to actually build stuff that could catch those tasty looking seagulls...

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Maybe the lazy bum is a musician. All he does is sit around playing music and singing. Should you off him because he won't help you plant a field?

Well college is supposed to teach critical thinking skills and most college professors tend to have pretty good credentials in that area.

So, I don't think that just because you disagree with their position that you can claim liberal college students lack critical thinking skills.

Maybe you could give me some position held by liberals that you believe to be irrational and could discuss it. But even then we'd have to do that for a whole variety of topics keeping track of when you were right and wrong before you could justifiably say that the the liberal position is mostly a result of lazy thinking.

In fact your unsupported generalization opens you to the exact charge you are leveling against liberals.

Sounds like there is stuff going on under the surface...

Oh well, par for the political course.

What I'm looking for is a place where, every once and while, issues get politely discussed according to rational principles. I don't expect it all the time, just often enough to prevent massive frustration.

The voting thing is a nice idea but in my years of online discussions I've never seen a decent implementation for doing so.

Should be possible, but you'd have to allow for alliances and friend/enemy voting. Maybe keep track of how each individual votes and then use that data to identify when that person makes a vote against their normal patterns.