#207

This is why I don’t think damning everyone who voted for brexit is going to benefit them or anyone else really.

#208

True but I also think people confuse being angry at people with dismissing them or damning them, TBH. Just because your mum is angry at you for doing a bad thing doesn’t mean she thinks you’re an awful person. The issue with the Leave camp is they’re so scared it won’t happen they’ve gone into this hyper-defensive state where they try to force Remainers to feel guilty for the mere act of disagreement.

#209

Yeah there’s lots of awful stuff going on but I hate it when people from a privileged position sneer at and blame it all on idiot poor folk. Also yes I do this myself and hate it when I calm down and catch myself doing it so happy to admit I’m a hypocrite.

#211

At the moment, you only have want the wrong kind of Brexit to be deemed a traitor to the realm

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#214

don’t think it can be collapsed down to one typical voter, the ones you describe are definitely a big strand but there are definitely more sympathetic strands too

#215
  • Asbestos removal
  • More asbestos! More asbestos!

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#216

my dad claims our house has the ‘good type of asbestos’ bit scared to look into whether that exists so will take his word for it

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#217

Madly enough, asbestos is still legal in the USA.

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#219

All I can think of when I see them being punted is:

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#220

Oh wow

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#221

I assumed that was the point. :smiley:

#222

These are pretty interesting too, wrt it being a disorder that has a physical presence in the brain. I gather they have a pretty good understanding of what behaviour they can reasonably expect to see from a psychopath but no real understanding of how it could be treated or why some end up murderers while other end up bankers or lawyers, etc.

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#223

the first suggest it’s not to do with lack of empathy for others, but the person not being able to properly evaluate the cost to themselves of impulsive actions, that’s really interesting, wonder if it has to also coincide with having violent impulses in the first place, or whether the suggestion is everyone has violent impulses they just are better at not acting on them. Guess it does counter my earlier point that about people still being able to make the right choices even if they can’t feel bad about the wrong ones. I’m an impulsive over eater, maybe I should be worried

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#224

@profk Do you want me to move all the psychopathy talk into a separate thread or are you happy for it to stay in here?

#225

its cool. i’m all about that free lovin’.

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#226

You know, I reckon there’s something to the idea of it being a spectrum, like you and @wonton say, rather than an either/or situation. I mean everybody is a bit of a shit on some level, we all have selfish or uncaring moments, and occasionally we all do things we’re not proud of but don’t feel particularly bad about afterwards.

@whiterussian Nah fam, it totally fits the theme of the thread, like we have to grapple with our animal origins if we want a better society. We used to steal precious berries and totems from our neighbours and now we hotwire their sweet rides or defraud their grandma. It’s all part of the same continuum.

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#227

This thread has been all over the fucking shop tbh tbf…

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#228

Allocation of votes according to age – i.e. younger voters are granted a greater number of votes compared with older voters, say five compared with one.

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#229

Having beeves without Ruffers

  • Very inconsiderate
  • What the hell was I even doing
  • Evidence the anarchist utopia needs Ruffers as a short term dictator of the proletariat in order to dismantle the State apparatus

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