Horrible posts by former posters!

[Moomin]

Whistlin Dixie saying any terrorist caught should have his family thrown from a helicopter and even babies.

He was demented and sadly passed fighiting in Middle Earth ( New Zealand ) against Elong.

Any other posts or threats we should remember?

 

[verreauxi]

 

[Martin Alvito]

Whistlin Dixie saying any terrorist caught should have his family thrown from a helicopter and even babies.

He was demented and sadly passed fighiting in Middle Earth ( New Zealand ) against Elong.

Any other posts or threats we should remember?

As my son likes to say about horrible statements that have some truth to them, he's not wrong.

From the standpoint of deterrence, it's a way. It probably won't work since the overlap set between the set of terrorists and the set of sociopaths is pretty large.

That's not the reason we refrain. We refrain because of what doing that does to us. You can make an argument for it per Mill. We generally don't run the world Mill's way because we don't like the implications of believing utilitarianism, in terms of what we would have to do.

 

[BlueLlama]

All of those dressed up dog nonces got banned didn’t they? What an embarrassing thread that was

 

[Tubey]

As my son likes to say about horrible statements that have some truth to them, he's not wrong.

From the standpoint of deterrence, it's a way. It probably won't work since the overlap set between the set of terrorists and the set of sociopaths is pretty large.

That's not the reason we refrain. We refrain because of what doing that does to us. You can make an argument for it per Mill. We generally don't run the world Mill's way because we don't like the implications of believing utilitarianism, in terms of what we would have to do.

No it doesn't work that way. If we for some odd reason started throwing terrorist's families out of helicopters (can't believe I'm actually having this conversation, but anyway), you'd radicalise thousands upon thousands of other people. It'd make the situation worse to an astonishing degree. A PR fantasy for extremists.

 

[Encoder]

Silent Bob. You know the one.

 

[Azzurri]

No it doesn't work that way. If we for some odd reason started throwing terrorist's families out of helicopters (can't believe I'm actually having this conversation, but anyway), you'd radicalise thousands upon thousands of other people. It'd make the situation worse to an astonishing degree. A PR fantasy for extremists.

You’ll argue absolutely anything, won’t you?

 

[Tubey]

You’ll argue absolutely anything, won’t you?

Just running out, I'll be back later to argue with you about how I wouldn't argue about absolutely anything.

 

[chrismpw]

I'd just like to apologise now for anything I may have said in the days where opinions were allowed to be expressed on the Internet, before the advent of millennials and before the sad demise of the phrase "sticks and stones."

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I'd just like to apologise now for anything I may have said in the days where opinions were allowed to be expressed on the Internet, before the advent of millennials and before the sad demise of the phrase "sticks and stones."

Okay boomer

 

[ilikecheese]

This guy kinda lost his shiz when England lost.

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/euro2020-knock-out-rounds.112961/page-625#post-8897703

 

[orly]

Silent Bob. You know the one.

A key moment in the Danger War of 2016-17

 

[Martin Alvito]

Just running out, I'll be back later to argue with you about how I wouldn't argue about absolutely anything.

"I came in here for an argument!"
"Oh, sorry, this is abuse!"

No it doesn't work that way. If we for some odd reason started throwing terrorist's families out of helicopters (can't believe I'm actually having this conversation, but anyway), you'd radicalise thousands upon thousands of other people. It'd make the situation worse to an astonishing degree. A PR fantasy for extremists.

You're talking about the spillover effects. I'm talking about actually deterring the terrorists.

If the terrorists all cared about their families more than the cause, this threat would deter them. In general, they don't, so it wouldn't.

The spillover effects would be irrelevant if the threat actually deterred the terrorists. In some cases, it is our actions that denied the terrorists families and led them to become terrorists.

 

[davids]

No it doesn't work that way. If we for some odd reason started throwing terrorist's families out of helicopters (can't believe I'm actually having this conversation, but anyway), you'd radicalise thousands upon thousands of other people. It'd make the situation worse to an astonishing degree. A PR fantasy for extremists.

I've a sad but sneaking suspicion that from some of what we've seen in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay it may well have been tried.

 

[orly]

The one from @The Mighty Quint where he was posting loads of memes with the N-word in it. Pulp Fiction ones. Can't remember which of his accounts it was.

What was Quinty's account before that one? He's had that many I can't remember them all