Humans - the rational animal

[NonEntity]

I just HAVE to share this.

Listening to last night's FreeTalkLive radio show, a caller from Washington (state, I assume) was berating the Free Staters for not accepting "their share" of government debt. And then he pointed to Meg, who is currently in jail for failing to pay to register her truck and claimed that she is EXTORTING the state because she is not paying for the privilege of being incarcerated.

Follow this now: Meg is extorting the state because they have, against her will, thrown her in a cage and she is not paying them for this service. This is extortion!

Someone please notify Webster so he can update his dictionary, okay?

Sigh.

- NonE

[zonsb]

(10-29-2011 08:15 AM)NonEntity Wrote:  I just HAVE to share this.

Listening to last night's FreeTalkLive radio show, a caller from Washington (state, I assume) was berating the Free Staters for not accepting "their share" of government debt. And then he pointed to Meg, who is currently in jail for failing to pay to register her truck and claimed that she is EXTORTING the state because she is not paying for the privilege of being incarcerated.

Follow this now: Meg is extorting the state because they have, against her will, thrown her in a cage and she is not paying them for this service. This is extortion!

Someone please notify Webster so he can update his dictionary, okay?

Sigh.

- NonE

That reminds me of the rationalization I read on the Money, Power and Glory thread a couple weeks ago; when a judge sentences a person to X amount of time in jail it diminishes the judge's pay-check (loss of tax revenues due to prisoner being in jail and not producing taxable income) and thus is alleged evidence the judge is impartial and doesn't have a conflict of interest. His real problem was not so much the rationalization, for that was to be expected, rather, he was looking the other way from where the goalpost was.
Hook, line (reeled him in) and sinker.

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[Kel]

(10-29-2011 08:15 AM)NonEntity Wrote:  Follow this now: Meg is extorting the state because they have, against her will, thrown her in a cage and she is not paying them for this service. This is extortion!

Keen observation chap. Keen observation.








-NonE-Prime

[NonEntity]

Can I hijack my own thread? Or is that an oxygenius?

N.Y.Times article on a brain guy Wrote:It turned out, yet again, that people who’d had the split-brain surgery helped provide an answer. Dr. Gazzaniga, now at Dartmouth, performed more of his signature experiments — this time with an added twist. In one study, for instance, he and Joseph LeDoux, then a graduate student, showed a patient two pictures: The man’s left hemisphere saw a chicken claw; his right saw a snow scene. Afterward, the man chose the most appropriate matches from an array of pictures visible to both hemispheres. He chose a chicken to go with the claw, and a shovel to go with the snow. So far, so good.

But then Dr. Gazzaniga asked him why he chose those items — and struck gold. The man had a ready answer for one choice: The chicken goes with the claw. His left hemisphere had seen the claw, after all. Yet it had not seen the picture of the snow, only the shovel. Looking down at the picture of the shovel, the man said, “And you need a shovel to clean out the chicken shed.”

The left hemisphere was just concocting an explanation, Dr. Gazzaniga said. In studies in the 1980s and ’90s, he and others showed that the pattern was consistent: The left hemisphere takes what information it has and delivers a coherent tale to conscious awareness. It happens continually in daily life, and most everyone has caught himself or herself in the act — overhearing a fragment of gossip, for instance, and filling in the blanks with assumptions.

Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way... Oh. Wait!

Nevermind.


- NonE