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Hey, Answerman! [2006-10-06]

Yes, I favor the doers over the stand-stillers, the new to the status quo. And I believe that a single person's enjoyment is more important that many peoples' peace.* I believe in being narrow and deep.*

To me, life is about achieving happiness, not avoiding pain.

Read self-centered and inconsiderate.

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To me, life is about achieving happiness, not avoiding pain.

No matter who, or how many peoples lives you trample over to achieve it. In the UK that's known as "anti-social behavior" and it's against the law if done in public.

Mohawk52 wrote:

Read self-centered and inconsiderate.

Yes, I am self-centered rather than other-people-centered. Why should a person be otherwise?

Trampling lives is not what is done by yaoi fangirls. Trampling lives is what is done by laws proscribing anti-social behavior.

Just out of curiosity, since this is as good a place as any to post about it: Is AnswerMan on a one-week hiatus, or has the posting been delayed? Don't worry, we all know you're busy, Zac, but a little "No AnswerMan this week; please enjoy these cute kitten photos" on the front page would soothe the burning antici--pation that rages within us all

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Very true, but as I've said before, my right to throw a punch exists to the limit of your face, and not before. Unless I've actually done damage to you, not just irked you, it's still correct to do it.

Everybody has the right to pursue something that makes them happy, and when they find it, they should enjoy it. However don't make yourself inhumane and refuse to help others if there is a need for it. You will regret it later.

Not entirely true. You don't have to actually come in contact with me for me to feel threatened/violated.

Also, you failed to respond to his point about your right to be annoying ending at his ears, which is a lot more pertinent to the discussion of annoying yaoi fangirls than punching someone in the face.

In public, the damage standard must apply; annoyance is not damage. And therin lies the rub. Since annoyance is not damage, there is a time and a place for yaoi fangirl screams, and to decry them in their proper place is as wrong to expound them in places they are not welcome.

Steroid wrote:

In public, the damage standard must apply; annoyance is not damage. And therin lies the rub. Since annoyance is not damage, there is a time and a place for yaoi fangirl screams, and to decry them in their proper place is as wrong to expound them in places they are not welcome.

So apparently then you are not familiar with public disturbance laws. If someone calls the police and complains that your music is too loud, no matter what time of day it is, they'll come and shut you down and potentially fine you. Why? Because you were annoying and someone complained.

If you're a performance artist and you have a loudspeaker and you're screaming at people in the middle of the park on a Saturday, odds are the cops are going to haul you off for creating a disturbance. We have laws in place specifically to prevent people from being annoyed. But apparently on Planet Steroid that's not how it is!

"Annoyance is not damage". This isn't true, and the laws don't back your claim up at all. You don't seem to have any clue at all how the laws in this country actually work; again, you argue based on whatever you think reality SHOULD be and then try and claim that that's how it is.

Also, you're "I'm in favor of things that shake up the status quo!" speech is cute and precious, but it's also meaningless adolescent blather. The world does not operate in the manner you think it should and I'm really happy for that; you seem ultimately self-absorbed, unconcerned with the well-being of others, bizarrely confident in your own totally bogus interpretation of both the law of the land and the constitution of this country.

One day you're going to actually act in a way that you feel is appropriate according to how you "think things should be" and you're going to get arrested for it. And something tells me even that will fail to knock some common sense into you.

Laws, laws, laws. If we're going to talk about what is, then let's dive in with both feet. Laws are words written down by overpaid men who can't get real jobs. An appeal to such authority is nothing in support of your claim that annoyance is damage. A troop of policemen might haul me off for speaking my mind in public, or a highwayman might haul me off because he wants my money. Both represent wrongs--damage--done to me. And just as the policy of a gang represents no moral basis for such a wrong, neither do the flowery words of a law. Right is right, and wrong is wrong, any time and any place.

Hahahahaha, right, senator/representative/governor are not REAL jobs. They're just overpaid idiots!

Alright alright, enough. It's been fun but you drove this bus into crazytown a few pages back and now you've driven it straight over a cliff.

But what does common courtesy do for the person who is more interested in acting out their urges than in harmony? Let's say I'm a yaoi fangirl, and I want to act out and squeal. What does it do for me to restrain myself?

It might convince other people to restrain their urges, but that doesn't bother me.

Hurting yourself is not wrong, just stupid. Give people the facts, let them make their own decisions, and get out of the way.

Yes. We are not all one family, or one group. We are a collection of individuals, all acting in our own interests. When someone projects that interest in the face of the general populace, it should be celebrated.

To me, life is about achieving happiness, not avoiding pain.

The winds just didn't blow in my favor this week; a freak email accident caused me to lose all of my email during the past week, and I'm also working on the Fall Anime Preview 2006, which is extremely time consuming.

The column will return next Friday, and I do apologize for the unannounced hiatus.

Hahahahaha, right, senator/representative/governor are not REAL jobs. They're just overpaid idiots!