Re:Ask HN: What is the best quote you ever heard?
by cafard on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:04AM
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That sounds a bit like Churchill's "Never negotiate with the monkey when the organ-grinder is in the room."
Re:Ask HN: What is the best quote you ever heard?
by codegeek on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:11PM
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love it.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best quote you ever heard?
by random8675309 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:17PM
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Sounds a bit rapey.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best quote you ever heard?
by phaus on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:07PM
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Sounds rapey only if you are ignoring the fact that people have a right to consent or not consent to sexual things that happen to them.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best quote you ever heard?
by random8675309 on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:00PM
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Nope, it’s rapey, and you are forgetting the fact that a person can only give consent when sober. If someone is drunk then they don’t have the power to say yes. According to that quote anyone who asks for sex from the intoxicated person should just do it. That is rape. Lawyered!
Re:Ask HN: What is the best quote you ever heard?
by phaus on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:29PM
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I think you're taking it too literally, you can manipulate lots of quotes to turn them into something they weren't intended to be.
Pretty sure the quoted person wasn't promoting the rape of intoxicated people.
I think the intent was not wasting your time on being rejected by people who aren't even in a position to give you what you are asking for because they don't ever have the authority or power to grant it. That makes more sense than viewing it as an excuse to prey on people that are temporarily in a disadvantaged condition.
— Eleanor Roosevelt