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Dudesan134 karma

I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: "Have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion?" But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.

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Dudesan68 karma

If you were 11 during the 1940s, how old does that make your grandmother? Anyone who lives through that much shit gets my respect.

Dudesan23 karma

The difference is that Schindler's List presented the Holocaust as a bad thing.

Birth of a Nation was pro-KKK propaganda that just happened to have really, really good direction and cinematography.

Dudesan22 karma

Remember, kids: The best way to tell if an ETI is friendly is to shoot a giant rock at it at a significant fraction of the speed of light.

But seriously, what are your opinions on whether announcing our presence to the galactic community is a good idea?

Dudesan4 karma

They even leave plenty of transitional forms, such as "Cdesign Proponentsists"