Comments on: On insincerity and psychopath-sadism http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215 Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:37:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Alex http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215&cpage=1#comment-334 Alex Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:14:52 +0000 http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215#comment-334 I asked this on another blog Bea, and I will ask again: What should we think about someone who laughs at pain and misery? I asked this on another blog Bea, and I will ask again: What should we think about someone who laughs at pain and misery?

]]> By: On insincerity and psychopath-sadism http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215&cpage=1#comment-332 On insincerity and psychopath-sadism Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:01:53 +0000 http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215#comment-332 [...] Crossposted @ That Vegan Girl [...] [...] Crossposted @ That Vegan Girl [...]

]]> By: Bea Elliott http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215&cpage=1#comment-331 Bea Elliott Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:16:42 +0000 http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215#comment-331 I never quite know what to say or think when someone responds to a non-offensive statement about animals or veganism with: "Oh yeah, for every chicken you don't eat - I'll eat two". I never get what they're trying to achieve besides avoid "feeling or thinking" anything - It must be a defense mechanism - And in that case, I wind up just feeling sad for them (and a little frightened of them). I never quite know what to say or think when someone responds to a non-offensive statement about animals or veganism with: “Oh yeah, for every chicken you don’t eat - I’ll eat two”. I never get what they’re trying to achieve besides avoid “feeling or thinking” anything - It must be a defense mechanism - And in that case, I wind up just feeling sad for them (and a little frightened of them).

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]]> By: Alex http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215&cpage=1#comment-327 Alex Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:54:41 +0000 http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215#comment-327 That's an interesting and rather frightening point Kelly. I think I'll use that in the future, facetiously but sort of not, too, just to see what happens. That’s an interesting and rather frightening point Kelly. I think I’ll use that in the future, facetiously but sort of not, too, just to see what happens.

]]> By: Smite Me! [.net] » Blog Archive » Says KITS Live 105 & “The Woody Show”: Racism & speciesism brings the lolz! http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215&cpage=1#comment-326 Smite Me! [.net] » Blog Archive » Says KITS Live 105 & “The Woody Show”: Racism & speciesism brings the lolz! Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:25:49 +0000 http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215#comment-326 [...] guy (or gal). And I think it’s a given that every last one of ‘em will crack a defensive joke about enjoying tortured and tormented chicken [...] [...] guy (or gal). And I think it’s a given that every last one of ‘em will crack a defensive joke about enjoying tortured and tormented chicken [...]

]]> By: easyVegan.info » Blog Archive » Says KITS Live 105 & “The Woody Show”: Racism & speciesism brings the lolz! http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215&cpage=1#comment-325 easyVegan.info » Blog Archive » Says KITS Live 105 & “The Woody Show”: Racism & speciesism brings the lolz! Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:21:20 +0000 http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215#comment-325 [...] guy (or gal). And I think it’s a given that every last one of ‘em will crack a defensive joke about enjoying tortured and tormented chicken [...] [...] guy (or gal). And I think it’s a given that every last one of ‘em will crack a defensive joke about enjoying tortured and tormented chicken [...]

]]> By: kelly g. http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215&cpage=1#comment-323 kelly g. Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:31:52 +0000 http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215#comment-323 <i>More reasonably, I think, these comments are engendered from an unconscious discomfort with their choice to consume the flesh of the tortured. Humor is the last refuge of the uneasy, ignorant, and those lacking valid justifications for their behavior.</i> I think you're onto something here. There's an element of self-defensiveness in these borderline psychopathic taunts; "You think I'm a bad person for eating meat? I'll show you what a 'bad person' *really* looks like!" More reasonably, I think, these comments are engendered from an unconscious discomfort with their choice to consume the flesh of the tortured. Humor is the last refuge of the uneasy, ignorant, and those lacking valid justifications for their behavior.

I think you’re onto something here. There’s an element of self-defensiveness in these borderline psychopathic taunts; “You think I’m a bad person for eating meat? I’ll show you what a ‘bad person’ *really* looks like!”

]]> By: Alex http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215&cpage=1#comment-322 Alex Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:18:27 +0000 http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215#comment-322 Thanks for stopping by ARPhilo; our first comment over here! Thanks for stopping by ARPhilo; our first comment over here!

]]> By: ARPhilo http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215&cpage=1#comment-321 ARPhilo Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:48:21 +0000 http://thatvegangirl.com/?p=215#comment-321 Good points. I started writing a book in your comments section so I moved it over to a blog entry: http://arphilosophy.blogspot.com/2009/01/psychopathology-and-humor-in-suffering.html Good points. I started writing a book in your comments section so I moved it over to a blog entry: http://arphilosophy.blogspot.com/2009/01/psychopathology-and-humor-in-suffering.html

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