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Re:The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994) by altairprime on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @01:57PM (#44172744)
> You say you find the incest and the torture equally upsetting

I presented no information whatsoever regarding my personal views on the violence. Perhaps you tried to infer my position from the verb “excuse” in the first sentence.

Re:The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994) by throwanem on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @03:13PM (#44173549)
I inferred your position from your constant use of the first-person singular to describe it, across what must now be at least a dozen paragraphs. If you had meant something else, I assume you would have said so.
Re:The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994) by throwanem on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @05:27PM (#44174937)
Oh, good grief, I wish I'd caught this while I still could delete my prior comment. You opened with

> The incest doesn't excuse the torture.

But that is not what I said. I said, in the comment of mine to which you first replied, that people excuse the torture, but not the incest, just as you have done.

I still can't figure out what you meant by "equally upsetting," but the basic issue is that we're talking past each other because you failed to apprehend my thesis and I was too busy to notice and call you on it right away. I hope this clears things up!