Some people are too stupid to breathe...

[jarandhel]

I think this has got to rank up there as one of the stupidest things I
have ever heard expressed by anyone, and it actually pains me that
this was NOT written by one of the trolls who started the thread:

If you want to be extreme about it, genocide
is a form of expression and therefore sacred. I consider free will to
be sacred, and pretty much nothing else. I have no right to stop
anyone from doing anything that doesn't directly harm myself or those
I care about. Technically genocide would be harmful to me, but I'm
speaking in broad terms.

Yes, someone actually wrote this on one of the mailing lists I'm on.

Comments

[per-akh.livejournal.com]

WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT LIST IS THIS?

~Duo

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

Lostkin. But please do not go there to continue the thread, it was started by trolls for the express purpose of starting a flamewar. This particular poster is an idiot, rather than one of the people trolling, but any response in the thread just feeds the flamewar they wanted, even justified responses.

[per-akh.livejournal.com]

Uhh, sorry no I had no intention on doing so anyway :P Internet wank ain't my thang lol.

~Duo

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Just making sure. There was one guy valiantly trying to make a stand against the idea of genocide being acceptable, not realizing that by doing so he was really just feeding the trolls and the idiots.

[shimizu-system.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful, and deep. ♥ Maybe someone should express themselves to that person, in broad terms.

~Souji

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

Is a 2 by 4 broad enough?

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

WIN. ;)

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

If y'alld said no, my next question was going to be "what about tank treads? They broad enough?" ;-)

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Oh man. Yeah. I mean, that one person was being a little, I dunno, vehement. They were purposely using a mode of expression that I would hope they'd have to know would set people off even if they agreed with the underlying idea (which I do, and I expect most people do). But wow. This was such a bizarre response.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

... actually, the thread started out as being about genocide (a "who wants to kill all the humans" thread) and after another poster (not me, I know better than to feed this level of troll) posted a long and very vocal opposition to the idea, this person decided that he was wrong and genocide==expression and therefor sacred. Genocide was the underlying idea, free expression was just gloss being used to make it sound more acceptable.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that. I meant the person who was all "I don't care how passionate I sound!" I mean, I applaud that, but you'd think they had to know that couldn't turn out well.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* Considering that the thread was started by a troll, I don't think any response to it could have turned out well.