Duty Calls

That seems incredibly silly; why on earth should I care about whether random people on the Internet think I have superior virtue or not? I am too busy making sure that they recognize my superior sense of humor!

To be sure, my comment was absolutely a dumb cliché! If your response to it was to feel like a fool, though, then that’s on you. 😉

Ah, I see your point now; this is basically just like how the author was making the point that refrigerator stores have an annoying way of trying to sell people butthole pictures in this comic:

Your comment was the only one calling for the termination of the pursuit of deeper meaning in the comic, which is an anti-intellectual stance.

I have no desire to terminate anything. For someone going to so much trouble to express how much you care about the importance of intellectual discussion, you are working extremely hard to avoid engaging your intellect when it comes to my comments.

I agree completely that the comic is parodying a particular cliche of a militant atheist. I disagree that the intent was to provide serious social commentary.

And I did not find either of those comments grating; I was merely citing them as evidence that not all of the discussion here is “intellectual”. Honestly, the real avenue of criticism that was left open to you that I was expecting you to take was to point out, correctly, that they were heavily cherry-picked for their unreasonableness; it actually surprises me a bit that instead you called them not “really off the mark” as if they were inherently reasonable responses.

Example intellectual comments being posted here:

I didn’t realize neckbeard atheists oppressed so many people compared to religion, thanks to the author for opening my eyes

So many militant atheists. Saying so much, all just to prove the comic right.

Having said that, my specific objection is not to all of the discussion taking place here, but to the fact that a lot of the comments seem to be projecting their own personal viewpoints onto the comic.

Also, I was not shouting people down; I was speaking in all caps to be funny. It’s fine if you personally did not think I funny, but that was the intent (which in retrospect could probably have been conveyed more clearly if I had also dropped the comma so that it was purely a stream of words), just like it was the intent of the comic author to make a dumb joke rather than to state a strong opinion about atheists. I think that it is useful to separate the intent of what an author was trying to accomplish from your own thoughts on the subject.

Sure, but that also means that I get to make my own contribution to the discussion. 😀

DEAR LORD PEOPLE, SOMETIMES THERE IS NOT A DEEPER MESSAGE AND IT’S JUST A DUMB JOKE!

Seriously, check out the other comics by this artist. They just like absurdist humor, like this one:

You are absolutely in the wrong so unfortunately I had to actually make you die on that hill, but I am upvoting anyway to leave a memorial in honor to your bravery for standing up for your principles.

Have you tried !perchance@lemmy.world?

The mistake was that they created a type that behaves like an array in every case except for bool, for which they created a special magical version that behaves just subtly different enough that it can break things in confusing ways.

The problem is that the word “disingenuous” does not mean “misleading”, it means “insincere”. So when you say that someone is being “a bit disingenuous”, you are necessarily commenting on their character, not just their claim.

So you genuinely think that the commenter was being insincere by making that remark?

Post OP and others continue to downvote - yet can’t counter.

Personally, I was turned off by you saying that the other commenter was being “A bit disingenuous.” just because you disagreed with them, despite the fact that I otherwise agree with your point.

I’m not sure why the above comment was down voted so hard. This community should encourage insightful comments.

I do not consider the sentence, “Absolutely made up propaganda for those without the ability to verify the simplest of facts,” to be an example of brilliant insight; I suspect that the vote count would have been different if it had not been present.

I agree that our society could deal with less of a focus on consumerism, but the problem that wishing that all basic needs were magically provided is that you cannot get around the fact that someone needs to do the providing.

I think that the most realistic way forward to get some of the same benefits is for us to start reducing the length of the work week, certainly to 4 days and possibly even to 3 days.

The whole comic was just a big exercise in silliness, rather than deep humor, such as when the skeptic claimed that the dog “could be a cat”.

But anyway, I would love to see the far superior philosophy-related comics that you have been working on!

I find your slur offensive; I am more of a great ape.

Yeah, I’d downvote it, but it is currently showing 666 net votes, and that captures how I feel about it even better.

Sure, but you do not need a separate field for that because you can take the results of the former and just swap the polarity.