When Two People Argue
The results can be… revealing:
You see, caring about your family, your ancestors, your lineage, your children, is “actually absurd,” apparently. And by implication, some kinds of context – where you came from, say – are to be scorned as worthless.
An earlier, related exchange comes to mind:
One more time:
I’m guessing that’s some kind of progressive metaphysics.
One commenter, a “pansexual she/her,” insists that civilisations are built by “stealing and oppressing other people.” Other, more edifying variables are not deemed interesting. I’m guessing that our “pansexual she/her,” the one who doesn’t think that lineage and genetic continuity play a role of any importance, isn’t herself a parent. And therefore hasn’t had the strange pleasure of seeing her children develop the features and attributes of various relatives. A sister, an uncle, a grandfather.
Though I doubt mere obliviousness would fully explain this phenomenon. There’s an element of contrivance, of affectation and perversity.
Mr Convente is currently invoking victimhood – because people have read his pronouncements and have either laughed or pointed out why those pronouncements are unconvincing. Mr Convente is also calling Mr Burkett various vulgar terms and is insinuating some nefarious racial motive, despite offering no actual evidence to that effect.
Because if you pause to consider the physical basis of family, even in measured terms, and if you point out the logical idiocy of the “It’s only by chance you were born to said ancestors” school of thought, seemingly favoured by so many progressives, then this can only be explained by some seething racial animus. Apparently.
Mr Convente also declares, with some pride, “I don’t want kids.” Being, as he puts it, “too selfish.”
Our Betters, ladies and gentlemen. See their pieties shine.
Lifted from the comments, which you’re reading, of course.
No way would I attempt to fell a tree that close to a house.
Gotta ask – just how many trees have you felled?
Also: You say you’re insured. Can you show me proof?
I don’t think that’s much of a option for a tree of that girth. Even topping it off it’s still mighty thick even above the rooftop level. Almost the equivalent of bringing down four big trees growing out of the larger trunk. Then you still have the main trunk. Either way a tree that huge, that close to a house is dangerous and expensive.
i’m having a large, I’m guessing 70 foot or more, poplar tree brought down close to my house as soon as they can get it on the schedule. They will be bringing in a crane truck and taking it down from the top. I have had to have about a half dozen or more other trees brought down here. Usually a Mexican crew that climbs up and tops it down. Getting proof of their insurance is sometimes like pulling teeth. And it’s usually some insurance company that I’ve never heard of, so….? This time, the tree being so close to the house and so big, though nothing like the girth of that one, we went with guys who are also contracted with the city/county/power company. Though we had gotten estimates from a Mexican crew we used before and another one recommended to us, partly because these local guys were so busy they hadn’t gotten back with us. I was surprised that the local boys were actually going to be a couple hundred bucks cheaper, what with crane rental and all.
Another thing regarding insurance, etc. when we first bought this place, there was a tree further up our hill deeper into the property that was dead and rather precarious. If it happened to fall the wrong way it could have crushed my workshop and possibly damaged the house. It needed to go and fairly soon. I had several locals come out for estimates and they wouldn’t touch it. Called it a widow maker. There was a mexican guy however whom people told me would/could do anything. Insurance was…well…things were getting urgent. Weighing the relative risks and the somewhat urgency, that the danger of their crew getting hurt was much less than if that thing fell in the next storm I decided to go with them. It was a bit scary until they got that top 20 feet or so off. It was quite the drama. As Mike Rowe says, sometimes safety comes second.
WTP is using paragraphs. I’m so happy.
Well Joyce, Faulkner, and Proust are all dead so…
I mention paragraphs because they do make comments easier to read, and more likely to be read, especially for people reading on phones. That’s about 30% of this place’s visitors.
[ Does caring face. ]
You seem to be under the impression that I view Joyce, Faulkner and Proust’s writings favorably.
No, I agree. I don’t write well. I get that. Especially lately. I appreciate your gentle prompting.
I’ll see if I can find a video example later but I’ve seen more than once people arguing themselves out of having children because “nobody consents to being born.”
Which is just the kind of logical absurdity you half want to ask them to defend it just to watch the show.
Ironically I see it most among the strongest anti-capitalist crowd. Even though their entire logic seems to boil down to “the customer is always right. I am life’s customer. Therefore I am always right.”