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Re: FAQ: Fuckwit's beliefs (posted as needed) - recent update!         

Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Derek
Date: Feb 8, 2008 12:45

On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:14:47 -0800, Rudy Canoza thedismalscience.net> wrote:
>Derek wrote:
>> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:45:04 -0800, Rudy Canoza thedismalscience.net> wrote:
>>> Derek wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:32:04 -0800, Rudy Canoza thedismalscience.net> wrote:
>>>>> Derek wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:04:09 -0800, Rudy Canoza thedismalscience.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fuckwit, who sometimes uses the alias "David Harrison",
>>>>>>> has long insisted that I have "lied" about his beliefs.
>>>>>>> I have never lied about his beliefs. He has written
>>>>>>> thousands of usenet posts based on his beliefs, and I
>>>>>>> have correctly interpreted his writing. His belief
>>>>>>> about animals, specifically his belief that animals
>>>>>>> "getting to experience life" is a morally good thing
>>>>>>> in and of itself, is something that appears frequently
>>>>>>> and with (believe it or not) a peculiar kind of clarity.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Read these quotes that I have culled from Fuckwit's
>>>>>>> usenet rantings over a four and a half year period,
>>>>>>> and judge for yourselves.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All emphasis in the quotes, by use of asterisks and
>>>>>>> quotation marks, is Fuckwit's own.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You really have to wonder why Fuckwit even bothered to
>>>>>>> start on this at all:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's just "another indication that [he's] a fuckin' moron I guess",
>>>>>> that's why, according to him.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Since I'm going on about all this, I'll mention a couple of
>>>>>> other things. As you have so helpfully pointed out: I'm not good
>>>>>> at this shit. One reason for that is that I don't like it much. I also
>>>>>> keep running into the same arguments over and over, which is
>>>>>> why I have developed the stock answer plan. That helps to
>>>>>> move on into the discussion with new people, without causing
>>>>>> me to waste any more time than I have to. The discussion
>>>>>> so far hasn't gone far enough that anyone has actually discussed
>>>>>> which animals they feel may have lives that are worth living, or
>>>>>> what might be done to encourage better lives for them, or
>>>>>> anything like that. The fact that I thought that it might eventually
>>>>>> get that far, and maybe even turn into something that could
>>>>>> some day become constructive instead of just a bunch of
>>>>>> arguing, is another indication that I'm a fuckin' moron I guess...
>>>>>> but I still haven't given up hope entirely, which is why I keep
>>>>>> on with it.
>>>>>> Harrison 19 Oct 1999 http://tinyurl.com/37scz7
>>>>>
>>>>> Ha ha ha ha ha! That's excellent! I actually saw that
>>>>> post from Goo/Fuckwit the other day, but I didn't read
>>>>> far enough into it to see the "...another indication
>>>>> that I'm a fuckin' moron" line.
>>>>>
>>>>> Too freakin' funny!
>>>>>
>>>>> It's also pretty funny that he says he isn't good at it
>>>>> because he doesn't like it much. The hell he doesn't
>>>>> like it! He's *obsessed* with this shit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again for this - great catch.
>>>>
>>>> My pleasure. At this rate it looks like I'll have to buy an
>>>> external HD to store all these quotes. 500G should just
>>>> about do it.
>>>
>>> I just bought one a little while ago - a Seagate Free
>>> Agent 500GB that supports USB 2.0, eSATA and Firewire.
>>> I've been happy with it so far. It comes with some
>>> backup software, but in poking around on Google to see
>>> if this software was any good, I couldn't come up with
>>> a definitive answer. Most of the reviews were
>>> unfavorable, but then they were unfavorable toward
>>> almost all of them.
>>
>> I really do need something similar to that. At the moment
>> I'm having to make do with an 80GB internal HD and a
>> couple of pen drives with "briefcases".
>
>This thing was about $200, but it would have been at
>least $50 cheaper if I hadn't got the one with the
>Firewire connection option, and in retrospect, I don't
>think I really need it. Firewire is faster than USB
>2.0, but not by all that much.
>
>The nice thing about these gizmos is you can disconnect
>them and attach them to another computer easily. I
>have both a desktop and a laptop (notebook) computer,
>and it allows me to have material available for either.

My PC and laptop are connected via wifi through a
BThomehub.
http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/homehub.html

As you can see by the photographs, it has a couple of
USB connectors, and I would like to connect an external
HD to one of them to hold all my music, etc.,

USB Hard Drive:
Thanks to Denis Pratt for the following (Jan 07):
"I recently attached a Packard Bell Store and Save
External Hard Drive to the Type A USB Port of my
Home Hub and found the drive became visible and
usable to the whole of my home network. The initial
access to the drive is slow but once accessed it
appeared to provide normal access and is now being
used as the central repository for our music collection."

But;

We've also heard from Paul Wilson on this subject,
but with less positive results:
"I connected my brand new external 500GB Seagate
freeagent desktop to the home hub. The hard drive
was overloaded by the extra power the hub provided
and broke. It now won't recognise in any XP computer
and Seagate are sending me a replacement unit." - You've
been warned. Paul advises strongly that you back up your
hard drive before trying to use an external drive via a hub"
http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/homehubfaq.html#usb

I think I'll still try when I eventually get an external HD, despite
the warning, but until then I'll continue burning to disk.
>>>>>>> I admit that I'm very weak in the area of
>>>>>>> presenting my ideas...I have as much 'right' to
>>>>>>> post my spew as everyone else does.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 11/30/1999
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fuckwit believes that unborn "future farm animals" are
>>>>>>> morally considerable "somethings":
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The animals that will be raised for us to eat
>>>>>>> are more than just "nothing", because they
>>>>>>> *will* be born unless something stops their
>>>>>>> lives from happening. Since that is the case,
>>>>>>> if something stops their lives from happening,
>>>>>>> whatever it is that stops it is truly "denying"
>>>>>>> them of the life they otherwise would have had.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 12/09/1999
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> He claims that he gives livestock animals' lives
>>>>>>> "consideration" that "vegans", selfishly, don't. But
>>>>>>> in fact, he gives the animals' lives *no* consideration
>>>>>>> as having morally considerable value AT ALL; it's only
>>>>>>> utilitarian to Fuckwit:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's not out of consideration for porcupines
>>>>>>> that we don't raise them for food. It's because
>>>>>>> they would be a pain in the ass to raise. We
>>>>>>> don't raise cattle out of consideration for them
>>>>>>> either, but because they're fairly easy to
>>>>>>> raise.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit David Harrison - Sep 26, 2005
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In fact, the only "consideration" he gives animals'
>>>>>>> lives is instrumental, as a means to products Fuckwit
>>>>>>> wants to consume. This exchange with someone named
>>>>>>> Dave illustrates it perfectly. The discussion
>>>>>>> ostensibly had been about which set of animals' lives,
>>>>>>> livestock or wildlife, ought to receive greater moral
>>>>>>> consideration. Fuckwit suddenly abandons any pretense
>>>>>>> of moral consideration of their lives, and shows he is
>>>>>>> only interested in the products they yield:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dave:
>>>>>>> I am suggesting that we have no reason to
>>>>>>> promote life for farm animals ahead of life for
>>>>>>> wild animals
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fuckwit:
>>>>>>> LOL!!!. We have at least two reasons. Can you
>>>>>>> think of either?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dave:
>>>>>>> Enlighten me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fuckwit:
>>>>>>> Meat. Gravy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fuckwit David Harrison - Mar 20, 2006
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> He claims to "promote decent aw [animal welfare]", but
>>>>>>> the fact is he doesn't care if animals suffer at all:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am not an extremist about it, and if I thought
>>>>>>> that all of the animals I eat had terrible
>>>>>>> lives, I would still eat meat. That is not
>>>>>>> because I don't care about them at all, but I
>>>>>>> would just ignore their suffering.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit David Harrison - Nov 29, 1999
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This last is astonishing: admitting that he would
>>>>>>> ignore their suffering is an admission that he
>>>>>>> *DOESN'T* care about them at all, except for the
>>>>>>> products they yield.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> He believes they can experience things - loss,
>>>>>>> deprivation, unfairness:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, it is the unborn animals that will be
>>>>>>> born if nothing prevents that from happening,
>>>>>>> that would experience the loss if their lives
>>>>>>> are prevented.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 08/01/2000
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What gives you the right to want to deprive
>>>>>>> them [unborn animals] of having what life they
>>>>>>> could have?
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 10/12/2001
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What I'm saying is unfair for the animals that
>>>>>>> *could* get to live, is for people not to
>>>>>>> consider the fact that they are only keeping
>>>>>>> these animals from being killed, by keeping
>>>>>>> them from getting to live at all.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 10/19/1999
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you keep an animal from being born which
>>>>>>> would have been born without your interference,
>>>>>>> you have denied life to it, whether it actually
>>>>>>> exists or not.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 28 Sept 1999 http://tinyurl.com/2x3ogu
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If it is wrong to cut their lives short, it is
>>>>>>> even more wrong to discourage them from ever
>>>>>>> getting to experience life at all IMO.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 9 Nov 1999 http://tinyurl.com/38bd9v
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am talking about non-existing entities as if
>>>>>>> they will be alive some day. You are encouraging
>>>>>>> the idea that they should never be alive.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 10 Nov 1999 http://tinyurl.com/2nypox
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> He believes that the "future farm animals" getting to
>>>>>>> live at all is what's important, irrespective of the
>>>>>>> quality of their lives:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Whatever* life they get they are lucky to get
>>>>>>> it...even if it's only six weeks like a fryer.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 09/04/1999
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All of that has nothing to do with how many
>>>>>>> actually get to live. But that is why I feel
>>>>>>> that every thing that gets to be born is lucky
>>>>>>> in the respect that it *did* get to be born,
>>>>>>> since the odds are infinite against all of us
>>>>>>> that *we* will actually get to experience life.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 12/11/1999
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then I guess raising billions of animals for
>>>>>>> food provides billions of beings with a place in
>>>>>>> eternity. I'm happy to contribute to at least
>>>>>>> some of it.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 04/12/2002
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But it's still every bit as morally acceptable
>>>>>>> for humans to kill animals for food, as it is
>>>>>>> for any other animals to do so imo. And in fact
>>>>>>> more so, since we provide life for most of the
>>>>>>> animals we kill.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 04/20/2002
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Life is the benefit that makes all others
>>>>>>> possible.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 06/25/2003 (and numerous other posts)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Okay: Existence, and then life itself are the
>>>>>>> most important benefits for any being. Though
>>>>>>> life itself is a necessary benefit for all
>>>>>>> beings, the individual life experiences of the
>>>>>>> animals are completely different things and not
>>>>>>> necessarily a benefit for every animal,
>>>>>>> depending on the particular things that they
>>>>>>> experience.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 03/22/2005
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Lately (winter 2008), Fuckwit has been lying about his
>>>>>>> focus. He has taken to claiming that he is concerned
>>>>>>> with existing farm animals, and their enjoyment of
>>>>>>> [ugh; wretched Fuckwit phrasing alert] "lives of
>>>>>>> positive value". This is another Fuckwit lie. As the
>>>>>>> above quotes largely show, and as the next two amplify
>>>>>>> and reinforce, Fuckwit has *always* been maniacally
>>>>>>> obsessed with the wrong done to non-existent "future
>>>>>>> farm animals":
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If it is wrong to cut their lives short, it is
>>>>>>> even more wrong to discourage them from ever
>>>>>>> getting to experience life at all IMO.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 9 Nov 1999 http://tinyurl.com/38bd9v
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am talking about non-existing entities as if
>>>>>>> they will be alive some day. You are encouraging
>>>>>>> the idea that they should never be alive.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 10 Nov 1999 http://tinyurl.com/2nypox
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fuckwit tries to deny that he attaches any importance
>>>>>>> to the mere fact of "getting to experience life" per
>>>>>>> se, but as usual, his words betray him. Here, we see
>>>>>>> that Fuckwit believes that "providing them with life"
>>>>>>> earns humans some kind of moral bonus points:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As for whether or not providing them with life
>>>>>>> is an acceptable trade off for taking it later,
>>>>>>> no one has ever had a problem with it.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 10/12/2003
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> He believes that "aras" are doing something terrible to
>>>>>>> the unborn "future farm animals" merely by *wanting* to
>>>>>>> prevent them from being born:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> People who encourage vegetarianism are the
>>>>>>> worst enemy that the animals we raise for food
>>>>>>> have IMO.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 09/13/1999
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You also know that "ARAs" want to deprive
>>>>>>> future farm animals [of] living,
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 01/08/2002
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That approach is illogical, since if it
>>>>>>> is wrong to end the lives of animals, it is
>>>>>>> *far worse* to keep those same animals from
>>>>>>> getting to have any life at all.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 07/30/1999
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What I'm saying is unfair for the animals that
>>>>>>> *could* get to live, is for people not to
>>>>>>> consider the fact that they are only keeping
>>>>>>> these animals from being killed, by keeping
>>>>>>> them from getting to live at all.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 10/19/1999
>>>>>>> [like Humpty Dumpty, I pay this quote extra!]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fuckwit claims, falsely, that what the animals feel
>>>>>>> about their lives is what matters:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But!! Since *we* are not the ones that we are
>>>>>>> discussing, what *we* know has nothing to do
>>>>>>> with it. Instead, the way the animals feel
>>>>>>> about their lives is what matters, and in order
>>>>>>> to get some idea of what that is, we have to
>>>>>>> ignore the things that we know, and that they
>>>>>>> do not (like the fact that they will be
>>>>>>> killed). If a person is not willing to try to
>>>>>>> do that, then they really don't care about the
>>>>>>> animals, but are worried more about their self.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 08/20/1999
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But of course, he's lying. It's what *Fuckwit* feels
>>>>>>> about them, about his connection to them, about his
>>>>>>> ability to "appreciate" them for a while, that matters
>>>>>>> to him:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Over in cat ng world I've been flamed pretty
>>>>>>> well for letting [Fuckwit's cat] have any
>>>>>>> [kittens]. At least one of them feels that for
>>>>>>> every kitten I let a person have from "my" cat,
>>>>>>> a kitten in a shelter will die. Of course the
>>>>>>> ratio is not likely to be anywhere near one to
>>>>>>> one, but some folks tend to be a bit fanatical
>>>>>>> about things. Even if it were that way, there
>>>>>>> is really no reason for me to encourage life
>>>>>>> for some kittens in a shelter, at the expense
>>>>>>> of kittens that could get to experience life
>>>>>>> from a cat that I actually care about, and
>>>>>>> kittens that I get to appreciate and like at
>>>>>>> least for a little while.
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 09/23/1999
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At least my "insanity" allows appreciation for
>>>>>>> what life has to offer [to animals].
>>>>>>> Fuckwit - 05/06/2004
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fuckwit sleazily and dishonestly tries to keep
>>>>>>> insisting that the people arguing with him need to show
>>>>>>> how the "'ar' proposal" to eliminate farm animal is
>>>>>>> ethically superior to providing "decent" lives for
>>>>>>> them. But as we see, Fuckwit isn't at all concerned
>>>>>>> with providing "decent lives" for them. He's
>>>>>>> interested in seeing them "get to experience life",
>>>>>>> period, irrespective of the quality of that life. And
>>>>>>> he feels anyone who wants to try to stop that is evil.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No one needs to show any ethical superiority of one
>>>>>>> "proposal" over another, at all, as long as Fuckwit is
>>>>>>> lying about *his* proposal and as long as he continues
>>>>>>> to insist on presenting the bogus, logically invalid
>>>>>>> choice that he does.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The record, in Fuckwit's own words, speaks for itself.
>>>>>>> No one has "lied" about Fuckwit's beliefs. Fuckwit
>>>>>>> believes everything I have said he believes, as
>>>>>>> supported by Fuckwit's own ranting.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pardon me for failing to trim these gems.
>>>>
>>>> Pardon me for failing to trim these gems.
>>
>> Pardon me for failing to trim these gems.

Pardon me for failing to trim these gems.
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