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	People's Contradictory Beliefs? Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

Alot of people I notice enjoy having adamant ideals and beliefs about things (usually acquired from others rather than from searching themselves). Oft-times their beliefs contradict themselves, I find it kind of amusing. Does anyone else? Share your examples here.

Here's one I thought of : A pro-choice vegatarian who won't eat eggs.

How about, a tree-hugger who owns a newspaper.

Share some.

	16-01-2003 09:42									#2
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BY a tree hugger do you mean someone who is totally against the cutting down of trees, or do you just mean someone who cares aobut the environment?

	16-01-2003 10:35									#3
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most tree hugers acknowledge that SOME trees need to be destroyed for industry.

A pro-choice vegatarian who won't eat eggs.

	16-01-2003 10:38									#4
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I care about the environment, by tree-hugger I mean someone who specifically complains about the destruction of trees.

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I shouldn't have thrown in the 2nd one, it wasn't as good...

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Luddites who use the internet as their soapbox.

	16-01-2003 10:53									#7
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Whats a luddite? Also, name one here who doesn't use the internet as his soapbox?

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Lud·dite ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ldt)
n.
Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment.
One who opposes technical or technological change.

	16-01-2003 11:00									#9
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A luddite was a term used for groups of people who used to destroy machinery during the beginning of the industrialisation because they believed those machines took their jobs away.

Another might an Amish internet user.

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quote: A pro-choice vegatarian who won't eat eggs.

I fail to see the humour. O'well.

	16-01-2003 13:45									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Narz Here's one I thought of : A pro-choice vegatarian who won't eat eggs.

That friggin made my day!

	16-01-2003 19:42									#12
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Someone who criticises drug dealers but who thinks prostitutes are victims.

Both are suppliers of a vice.

Alternatively, someone who thinks drug-taking is OK, but using a prostitute isn't. Both are demanders of a vice, here.

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quote: quote: A pro-choice vegatarian who won't eat eggs. I fail to see the humour. O'well.

Me too...

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quote: Someone who criticises drug dealers but who thinks prostitutes are victims.

Fair enough, if we aren't talking about slaves here.

quote: Alternatively, someone who thinks drug-taking is OK, but using a prostitute isn't. Both are demanders of a vice, here.

Okay... moral issues follow exactly the law on every person. Not.

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How exactly is sex a vice? Sure, paid sex is not the ideal situation, but if the prostitute is willing to offer sex for money and the customer is willing to pay for it, where's the problem?

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liking jews and hating israel?

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Against the death penalty, but for abortion as birth control.

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americans that support war with iraq, but withdrawl from north korea

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Leaves me out. I say bomb them both .

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Being a Communist and working for Citibank...

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Being pro-freedom and a socialist.

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being boddington

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quote: Against the death penalty, but for abortion as birth control.

Yeah, keeps me bugging too, altough a cliche.

quote: Being pro-freedom and a socialist.

Define 'socialist'. Lot of fellows seem to mean evil red komiis by "socialists".

	16-01-2003 21:53									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Narz Here's one I thought of : A pro-choice vegatarian who won't eat eggs.

How is this contradictory? First, many people (like me) are vegetarians for health reasons, not moral.

Also, not eating meat/eggs is, for many, out of objections to how the animals supplying such products are treated while alive.

How's this for contradictory: A "pro-life" person who staunchly supports the death penalty. Or any "Christian" who supports the death penalty, for that matter. I doubt Christ would approve of it.

And my current favorite--presidents who went to Yale based solely on who their daddy was who then decry affirmative action at universities. That's a riot!

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quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand Against the death penalty, but for abortion as birth control.

How is that contradictory? Anti-abortionists insist the embryoes are human beings but fail to make their case.

Now, OTOH, supporting the death penalty but against abortion is contradictory.

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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Now, OTOH, supporting the death penalty but against abortion is contradictory.

I don't think its contradictory.

	16-01-2003 22:11									#27
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Can someone explain the "pro-choice vegatarian who won't eat eggs". I don't get how its funny.

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quote: Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin I don't think its contradictory.

Yeah, that is merely supporting the killing of the guilty, of the keeping alive of the innocent.

Whereas braindead liberals like to kill innocents and let the guilty live.

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"Now, OTOH, supporting the death penalty but against abortion is contradictory. "

It's only contradictory if you make no distinction between innocent babies and convicted murderers.

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Here are a couple of thoughts on the subject.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell