Sunday, June 16, 2013

Who was that masked man anonymous cheap-joke-making jerk?


Old Rockin' Dave 
June 14, 2013
I am a lifelong opponent of appeals to “the slippery slope”, but there is one exception and that is the taking of human life. Take one, no consequences, and the taking of the next gets easier, and once a society goes down the path of deciding some lives are not worthy of life (“Lebensunwertes Leben”, in the original German) it gets only too easy to go a little farther and decide that the original batch was not far enough, and that if it was in society’s interest to have gotten rid of them, then we can go down the path a little more and get rid of some more “parasites” and “non-productives” and while we’re at it, one or another minority group that “harms social cohesion” or some such.
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herr doktor bimler 
June 15, 2013
I am a lifelong opponent of appeals to “the slippery slope”, but there is one exception
Now you’ve made your first exception, the second one will be easier to make. And the next one, easier still. It’s like a low-friction inclined plane.

8 comments:

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Take one, no consequences, and the taking of the next gets easier

It's just like that Stang feller warned us!

M. Bouffant said...

Old Rockin' Dave
Really? "Old Rockin' Dave?"

Smut Clyde said...

None of us are in any position to cast nasturtiums at the lameness of other people's nym, sir.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

IF that is his real name!
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mikey said...

For the life of me, I cannot understand why the process described herein did not come to be known as the "Low Friction Inclined Plane". The world is full of alliteration fascists...

Smut Clyde said...

"Greased gradient" would have been good. Mulligan Request Form #14/6b has been filled in and submitted.

tigris said...

For Smut: explaining voice explained.

Substance McGravitas said...

Gah. I followed the link and read the post and thread. Yuck.