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both are terrifying, but in thwarting the latter, the former is put off. if death weren't a problem then there wouldn't be any fear of dying.

Ean wrote:The death of self is a problem to you?

Yes, yes it is. That's why I do thousands of things every day to prevent my own death and that of others.

Ean wrote:Also dying is not really a problem

boooooooooooooooooooooooooooollshit

With over 7 billion people on the planet, breeding is not a priority, education is. those are not even the same kind of thing -- how many teaching jobs are there where you can paternally oversee the education of the next generation and pass on the torch? "Education", generally speaking, isn't the a...

sounds like your problem is you're a nihilist who hates good things, who, finding themselves unarmoured against the world, says that they believe armour is for cowards!

By not bringing yet another human being into this world? I'd make a pretty bad parent. Also, is that the purpose of children? To not die alone? That's cowardice. the purpose of children is to keep civilisation going. another purpose is to give you a reason not to be a shitty parent [that is, person].

Ean wrote:You can infer I plan on dying childless.

Though all deaths, natural or unnatural, must be quite a bitch.

Then that's where you're doing it wrong and setting yourself up for tragedy.

I guess I feel like this about time because almost all people I know are older than me - my sisters, my parents, my friends, my classmates... like I'm the last of ours, like nature demands I outlive all of these people and then die alone in a world so different from the one I was born to. there is ...

i dunno. legion strikes me as being the kind of person who wouldn't even sit on a public toilet seat, but would just hover and get shit and piss everywhere.

you know,

a frenchman

I love how getting an STD test is a bad thing that bad people do, instead of a responsible action that is characteristic of a careful and sensible person I hate how you're incapable of saying true statements about what I think [Hasn't been much good so far, but here goes: STD tests are bad things t...

Travis B. wrote:The key part here is that this does require one's partner to be completely faithful, which still is not a given, and not something one can necessarily know.

That's why it's called TRUST. Why not make your teenage daughters get them as well?

I mean, if openly getting one is going to be potentially a problem for one's relationship, as you state, why not just keep it between oneself and one's doctor (assuming it comes out clean at least)? Because you can just... not have one, and not encourage paranoia in yourself and weaken the trust in...

Travis B. wrote:And since when does one have to tell one's partner that one is getting an STD test?

Why would you especially avoid the topic, if there is nothing suspicious about it?

Hence it is only prudent if one is sexually active to be regularly tested for them, even if one has no specific reason to believe that one has contracted them. But you give a specific reason: Even if one is in a supposedly monogamous marriage one really cannot stop one's partner from cheating on on...

Travis B. wrote:Now the question is why pthag is so vehemently against regular testing for STDs such as HIV...

Jesus Christ.

Torco wrote: Its that a) you don't seem to understand that preventive medicine and early screening are good things...

stopped reading here. if you're not going to read what I write [and helpfully mark with capital letters] then why should I read what you write?

why should anybody, for that matter? do you?

you want to talk about defaults? i have been emphasising nothing more than the importance of informed choice and how you should beware the many people, victims of cognitive biases most likely, who spread disinformation preventing you from taking a good look at what you're actually doing and thinking...

oh, then i guess i fall into the class of "english people", and so the pederasty-rich category you are surely referring to is "british entertainers famed for their libertinism who who are still being regularly discovered to have been fucking children on the sly for the past few decades under the qui...

...fascists?

congratulations, torco, for continuing to provide a living example of craven left-liberalism, covering yourself itself in abstractions so as to ever be safe from having to notice that the forest is full of trees. you do your party a great service.

they happen to you when you fuck diseased people. that is not 'just happening'.you do something: there is a consequence.. if you don't fuck diseased people, you can't catch disease. "fucking people sometimes" is not the cause and is exactly the sort of chopped up half-proposition i was talking about...

oh, then by 'people' you mean shm jay. shm jay is a stupid fuck who makes a moron of himself in the exact same way i describe except in the anti-homosexualist cause, and he does it terribly even by their standards. acting like a fey little child in the worst way.

I was trying to clarify that I believe the opposite of your last point in my previous post, but I failed. So I will assert it -- that I do not think Astraios, or me, or generally speaking lots of [and maybe most] homosexuals [or for that matter straight people, although who can speak for them] get A...

fuck you, i'm occupy faggotry, i don't need to sign off on a list of demands written up by somebody else trying to help. i am promoting what i am promoting: namely: fight anybody who is trying to pull the wool over your eyes by talking about venereal disease like it's just something that happens, th...

no, they were a reaction to 'well, everyone says you're supposed to get tested, and they're throwing money at this like i'm in some fucking african plague camp so why not'. Although it *was* a reaction to a scare [of course because HIV IS SCARY] -- but not a scare of nonspecific "probabilities", but...