A PUA, living the dream. And by “living the dream” I mean “being a dick.”
Here’s the bravely anonymous alpha blogger behind “Danger & Play ~ An online magazine for alpha males” explaining “Why You Should Cheat on Your Girlfriend.” I’ve bolded my favorite bit:
Haters will tell you to, “Man up! Break up with your girlfriend if you’re not happy.” They are missing the point. You want to have your cake, and to eat it too. Steady, reliable pussy and the occasional strange is the best of all worlds.
Cheating is a lot of fun, and it’s something I highly recommend. It’s way more exhilarating than bungee jumping, and few things feel as good as banging your girlfriend on the same day you banged some strange.
Cheating keeps your game tight. The best way to regulate your girlfriend is knowing you can bang chicks as hot or hotter than your girl. Well, when you cheat, this isn’t hypothetical. It’s reality.
Somehow I’m guessing there’s a lot more “hypothetical” than “reality” going on in this guy’s posts.
You don’t want an exclusive relationship? Fine. There’s no law saying you have to be in one. You can date casually and non-exclusively. You can have an open or polyamorous relationship. There are a lot of people out there in relationships, yet happily fucking other people outside of them. They’re just above board with it.
But that’s not what’s going on with our PUA friend here. With his talk about “regulat[ing]” girlfriends, he seems more interested in fucking over his girlfriend (assuming such a creature really exists) than he is in fucking strangers (sorry, “stranges”).
That’s not “Game.” That’s just being a dick.
But, hey, Nietzsche! He’s BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL! Or, as he puts it in a comment, “Shame and guilt are beta.”
You know, if you have to go around telling everyone what an Nietzschean ubermensch you are, you’re probably aren’t much of a Nietzschean ubermensch.
Posted on October 17, 2011, in alpha males, beta males, douchebaggery, men who should not ever be with women ever, PUA. Bookmark the permalink. 961 Comments.









Amused: Re the sex with the corpse. There was a guy in Canada (NorthWest Territories, IIRC), who raped a woman who was passed out cold, near a bar. This was the dead of winter.
At his trial he offered the defense that he couldn’t have committed rape because he thought she was already dead.
He lost, but the defense was… novel.
Pecunium: His Public Defender or Legal Aide or whatever the Canadian equivalent, lawyer must have been a kid just out of law school. They come up with the craziest legal theories.
But, Brandon, false murder and false robbery convictions are just as common as false rape convictions. If fear of false rape convictions warrant you committing a variety of crimes, why so very little concern for these things? After all, if you had a girlfriend and she was murdered, you would likely be one of the first suspects (not just because you are a sociopath, but because women who are murdered are disproportionately murdered by their partners). Why aren’t you constantly documenting yourself to protect against such an occurance? Don’t you need an alibi every second of every day?
Also, I did suggest that if you want to be a paranoid creepo and tape all of your sexual encounters that a solution to the criminality issue would be getting consent to tape the people first. All you need to do if you insist on taping every single sexual encounter you have is get permission from every person you have sex with to make such recordings. I mean, then you wouldn’t have to break any laws or violate the rights of your sex partner and could still engage in your obsessive, disproportionate paranoia.
Guys! You’re making it worse! Brandon is gonna go around with a tin foil hat tomorrow cos of you people lol.
Setting aside the fact that Brandon’s little video plan is a staggering moral, legal, and practical failure, I do have a question about evidentiary law. My understanding was that the rule excluding illegally obtained evidence only applied to protecting a defendant from unconstitutional actions of the part of police. I thought that the prosecution was in fact allowed to bring witnesses whose only knowledge of the case was a result of illegal activity, and I would imagine that a defendant would similarly be allowed to produce evidence which may have required a crime to obtain.
I may well have misunderstood or been misinformed, so I was wondering if there’s a lawyer here who could offer an opinion.
I don’t usually comment here, but something occurred to me and I am interested to see if I can get an MRA’s thoughts on it. Sorry in advance for the long post.
Let’s say for the sake of argument that a man who has completely consensual sex with a woman runs some risk of being accused of rape afterwards, and that this risk is so great that it isn’t reasonable to just ignore it, and that there is no way to minimize the risk by being more conscientious. I see three kinds of ways that a person can manage this sort of risk:
1. By making some compromise personally in exchange for taking on less risk, like not sleeping with strangers, or not drinking when you’re out. Most people do this to some degree most of the time, but in certain cases it shouldn’t be necessary. A person shouldn’t have to live a compromised life in order to not be the victim of a crime.
2. Transfer the risk onto somebody else, like by secretly videotaping sexual encounters. Most of us find this morally unacceptable, because you are not only transferring all of the risk onto somebody else without their consent, but that person actually gets no benefit from the reduced risk! You haven’t actually reduced the total risk at all, you’re just satisfied that it’s on somebody else, not you.
3. Reduce the total risk without hurting anybody. This could take the form of awareness campaigns that teach women and girls not to falsely accuse, or by eliminating false accusers’ motivations (AFAIK, with genuinely false accusations, this is usually fear of abuse from a family member or spouse). This way, risk is reduced without anyone having to live like a hermit, or having to violate others in order to protect themselves.
Anyway, obviously these three approaches can also be applied to rape prevention. Generally, anti-rape activists are all about approach 3, partly but not only because it actually works. Then you get MRAs and concern trolls who object that the only reasonable thing is approach 1 and that approach 3 is just a way to weasel out of responsibility for…something? I have never seen anyone, anywhere, advocating approach 2 as a way of protecting oneself from rape. Most people consider this so unethical that it cannot be justified, but clearly some commenters here feel differently, and I would especially like to hear their thoughts.
So, if people who don’t want to be raped should just abstain from alcohol, dress “modestly,” and not go out at night, why isn’t approach 1 sufficient for those who fear false rape accusations? And if approach 2 is an acceptable way to protect oneself from false accusations, is it also an acceptable way to protect oneself from rape? If not, why not?
But manipulable. If you are such a computer whiz then why wouldn’t I think you’d doctored the video?
@Dracula
Hey! Dot’s vat Hy said! Und hyu don’t geet a nize hat like mine every day!
You’ll have to submit your long form consentual sex agreement for examination.
Another thing: approach 2 does have a clear advantage over the others if you really hate the person or people that you are transferring the risk to. One would think that if feminism were primarily about misandary, then we would see a lot of feminists urging women to install hidden cameras under the guise of rape prevention.
Hy had a nize hat, vonce. Hy vish Hy knew vere it vent…
“Also, rape unlike other crimes has the benefit of being behind closed doors. So the only thing people have to go on is your word for evidence. This is pretty flimsy legal defense.”
Usually, I just lurk like mad, but this has got to be one of the creepiest things said in this thread, so I just wanted to leave it here again, in case it got lost in the fray.
@darksidecat:
“@NWO and other MRAs whining about drinking, here’s a good guideline to determine if a person is too drunk to consent, ask yourself, “Would I let this person in their current state drive my car?” If the answer to this is no, that is a pretty good sign the person is too impaired in judgement to give genuine consent. Now, NWO, I know you prefer your partners too young to be allowed to legally drive, but as that is being a creepy pedo (oh, so sorry ephebo…child molestor), I will not address that issue.”
Sigh.
So we aren’t allowed to “whine” about drinking anymore?
Drunk women are simply horrible, horrible! I have absolutely no sympathy for all these rules on how to take their totally and utterly self-inflicted drunkenness into account.
That simply sends the wrong message.
If you get drunk, bad things might happen to you, you might have sex you don’t really want, you might buy stuff that you don’t really want (e. g. innocent pets that suffer from you stupid drunken decision!), you might think that you still can drive your car and kill other people or you might collapse in the drain and die of hypothermia.
But no, no, it’s never those people who get drunk who are to blame for their idiotic antisocial and reckless act to intoxicate themselves to the point where they are a danger to society, it’s the sober people who aren’t considerate enough of the winos.
“Just because you helped her home” is already WRONG, the mistake already begins there, you should just leave her where she is, because she has intoxicated herself to the point where she is potentially dangerous… ok, probably she might just vomit in your car but that’s already reason enough!
I never help any drunken women (or men, for that matter) because it’s totally and completely their own fault that they find themselves in this state.
I “whine” about drinking and I am PROUD of that.
Alcohol is evil, sXe for life!
“Benefits” of rape? I gotta go bleach my brain now. Jesus.
I see in the OP’s comments that our old friend Ion is still being his charming self.
Man, I leave the internet alone for a little while and you all go totally TL;DR on me. I’m just going to charge blindly ahead with comments on Brandon’s link to dangerandplay’s FRA article.
If you do a little research, you’ll notice something peculiar about the sentence Dangerandplay presents as a quote: a quick google search shows that the only matching hit for this quote is (you guessed it) dangerandplay’s website. Evidently it is not a quote of anyone except himself. It is dishonest and lazy. What an ubermensch. When asked about it in the comments, he provided this link:
http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/p/prevalence-of-false-rape-claims.html
Which links to this:
http://llr.lls.edu/volumes/v33-issue3/greer.pdf
Which is supposedly an authoritative legal debunking that references Eugene Kanin and cites recantations as indirect evidence of false rape accusations. Right after the author complains about faulty methodology. Yes, really.
Brandon, David made a post here on manboobz some time ago with a whole bunch of links about rape statistics etcetera. You would do well to read it.
DnP’s recommendations:
1. Filming it:
The San Francisco lawyer case mentioned is the case of Robert Michael Hoffman. Contrary to what DnP claims, only one encounter was videotaped. It’s unclear if the taped encounter was genuinely consensual, but the judge admitted it and apparently those charges were thrown out. In the case of one of his other accusers, the woman denied sending text messages to Hoffman and was proven wrong on the stand in dramatic fashion. Why would she lie about such a thing? I don’t know, it seems dumb. In any case Hoffman seems to have been stretching the bounds of consent, which brings me to the point dangerandplay overlooks:
Get clear and enthusiastic consent from your partner before you have sex with them. That alone seems like it would have prevented Hoffman the trouble of these “false” (I’m not convinced) rape accusations. Clear consent, and safewords, are especially important with kinky stuff and the accusations against him indicate that being careful about consent was not one of his priorities.
In the Hofstra case, the woman claimed she had been tied up when the video showed that that did not happen. There were also other inconsistencies in her story that might have acquitted the men involved anyways.
Of course, there are cases where women have been pretty clearly raped and the act was filmed and still it was deemed consensual. I’m thinking of one case in Nigeria, but it’s not like our culture is great about consent–I was watching Blade Runner last night and I realized that the lead-up-to-sex scene between Deckard and Rachael is waaaay creepier than I remembered. And yet this is imbued with a romantic air by their later interactions. Creepy as all fuck.
Recommendations 2-6 just sound like advice for casting suspicion on accusers, which, hey, will work, but it will work just as well for an actual rapist as it would for someone who is not. Given dangerandplay’s demonstrated attitude towards women, and the tendency of PUAs to explicitly call for pushing the bounds of consent, this just sounds like advice for getting away with being a creepy rapist to me. Again I point out that he misses the most important way to avoid being accused of rape, and that is getting enthusiastic consent from your partner. If someone is calling you up the next day telling you it was wrong, maybe you really are doing it wrong.
But hey. Being careful about consent would be respecting your partner, and that woudn’t be Alpha and would get in the way of getting laid. And who am I to get in the way of Game?
The last piece of advice, to not talk to the police, I agree with wholeheartedly for anybody being accused of a crime. Cite the 5th amendment, here in the states: it’s your right. If you don’t, it’s a police officer’s word against yours and theirs will always hold up better in court.
Joanna! Joanna! Guess what!
I got edited too!
Can I be part of your club now?
I love how Brandon wouldn’t kill a hobo because it doesn’t benefit him, not because, you know, it’s wrong.
In fact, the only thing he’s seemed to view as wrong in this thread (other than false rape accusations, of course) is necrophilia, and that doesn’t seem to be due to a moral objection, just the fact that it grosses him out. He’s without a doubt a sociopath. But not an interesting or intelligent one, like the one who runs the blog David linked to once upon a time. Rather, he’s one who never got past the behavior or logic of a five year old child and never learned to hide that.
Brandon, you’re a monster. You are, without a doubt, the most repugnant troll I have ever seen on this site, and that’s counting NWO’s “fucktoy with a pulse” comment. I hope Ashley doesn’t exist, and if she does, I hope she runs the fuck away from you.
Have you been sent back in time to destroy John Conner, or to protect him? Because I’m not seeing any alternative to this scenario right here.
Ha, Danger and play didn’t edit mine. He merely preferred, it seems, to prevent me from commenting.
I’m at such a loss. Why can’t I have a yeasty vagina, too?
Welcome Kirby! Come right in. It’s a great club, mostly we sit around comparing pustules.
Or fat rolls, a small dick, oozing acne, and a receding hair-line… I got edited in another thread too, and sadly it was a comment I was rather proud of. Ah well…
Yes, Moewicus, he left your challenge up. Wonder why?
But lovely running into Johnny_B again, haven’t seen him in ages.
I’m at such a loss. Why can’t I have a yeasty vagina, too?
(uuuuuuuuuuugh)
Because it produces alcohol?
Ooh, I got another one!
Apparently he’s been lurking on Manboobz, or recognized me from here some how. ^_^
He has left this one up, though… Very odd decision.
Brandon is starting to remind me of #5 here: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-real-diseases-that-have-somehow-become-trendy/
(Potentially offensive article, but I think she does a good job of being clear that these are still real disorders that people are legitimately diagnosed with. I didn’t look at the comments though and I don’t plan to.)
BTW, I wonder whether Brandon realizes how odd it sounds when he insists that the cops posolutley/absatively could not decrypt the very same tapes he plans to offer up as proof that he’s kept his
noseclean. In the event such proof is ever required, of course.I’m just saying.
(bekabot’s Fantasy Brandon: “These are the tapes that could exonerate me, if only you poor schmoes were bright enough to decrypt them, but you’re not!! Hah!! So I guess that means I get the last laugh!! Bwaahh!! I could be a free man tomorrow if only you stupes were smart enough to figure out the passwords for these tapes, but you never will, never in a million million million…er…um…well…yes…[gulps]…guess that’s enough gloating for now…”)
So according to most people so far, the advice is not to have sex. Ya, not going to happen. Sex is the best part of life and I am not going to stop sleeping with women because people here think I am immoral or nihilistic. Tough shit. There are all types of people in the world. I just happen to be not the lovey dovey bleeding heart variety.
@Darksidecat: Seriously? How do you have a “false murder” charge anyways? The moment they find that person walking and talking is the second that issue is solved. “Oh look, there he is, must not be dead…case closed.” It doesn’t even get past the investigation, never mind a trial. Rape is much more complex of an issue.
@Laurabot: Ya, I don’t really care what you think of me. I also wouldn’t kill the hobo because I think depriving someone of life is wrong.
Several people have asked you a simple question, Brandon. Why are you not acknowledging it?
brandon you should probably get your lawyer daddy to explain how someone can be falsely accused of murder (hint: it has to do with the reason we have trials). it’s a lot easier than you think.
Brandon, I’m not going to join in with the people bashing you for supposed mental disorders. It’s not my business whether you’re neurotypical or not; I myself have been diagnosed with Asperger’s, and judging from what other people have described feelings of empathy to be like, I don’t think I have a whole lot of that. (I have to remind myself constantly that other people have feelings, and reason from that to an estimation of what those feelings must be like in various situations. It’s difficult, but it can be done.)
But even if you are a legit sociopath, or if you have Asperger’s or something, it’s still possible to realize that empathy-like behaviors (I’m not saying “empathy” because I don’t care what your feelings about other people are, just your actions) will lead to rewards for society as a whole and therefore for you.
Consider that we evolved to live in groups, that even today people living in small bands of hunter-gatherers and whatnot absolutely must be altruistic to survive, and that humans in groups are far more likely to be able to hunt, build shelters, farm, etc, than one or two loners.
Consider that society wouldn’t run very well if everyone was as paranoid and creepy as you are being, ready to turn on one another at the slightest provocation. Consider that the fact that nobody has yet turned on you, despite your fears, is evidence that most people don’t want to, that implicitly we have all decided that living in a well-regulated, just society is better for the individual than living in a society of assholes. If other people behaved toward you the way you say is optimal for you to behave toward them, not only would you get hurt, a lot, but everyone would get hurt. And because we’d be less secure, we’d be less prosperous.
You paint yourself as an individual, a loner, just you and your gold and your non-consensually videotaped sex acts, but your individual comfort and security in fact rests on the fact that you live in a society that functions well, and that depends on a network of interdependent acts of altruism. You are the discordant note. Since this provokes hostility, it’s actually self-defeating. Self-interest demands not being a dick to other people.
The advice isn’t not to have sex, Brandon.
The advice is to not have sex with people you trust so little that you think they might stab you in the back at total fucking random. No, this can’t 100% protect you from “FRAs”, but it’s pretty good.
Do you fall asleep with women in the room? Do you eat food they’ve prepared? Take drinks they hand you? Then your problem isn’t that you’re genuinely a “TRUST NO ONE” security-minded type. It’s just that MRAs have planted the specific spectre of “women false-accuse men constantly for inscrutable woman reasons” in your mind, and you, brilliant free-thinker you, swallowed it whole.
It’s especially sad, because that meme only started to benefit rapists and intimidate rape survivors. It’s sort of an unintended side effect that it’s arousing this kind of paranoia. It’s supposed to comfort you with the knowledge that if you ever decide to rape someone you can say “false rape accusations, they happen all the time, sheesh women am I right fellas” and have a pretty good chance of getting off scot-free.
Well, Brandon, in that case what’s clear is that you aren’t taping women without their consent because you need to protect yourself and have no other choice; you are taping women without their consent because you want to indulge your own desires without regard to the bodily integrity of others. Hell, like I said — you might as well be a rapist. One thing, though: if you like boasting of how little you care about others, don’t then go around misrepresenting your motives. You aren’t sacrificing those women to your safety; you are sacrificing them to your hang-ups.
No, Brandon, see, you just happen to be the stupid and criminal variety. You also happen to be a very immature variety who hasn’t realized yet that Ayn Rand’s “philosophy” is bullshit, and you only exist thanks to the very society that you so despise. I I am not the “lovey dovey bleeding heart” type; hell, I’m downright abrasive. Nevertheless, I respect people’s boundaries and don’t commit crimes in the name of pursuing pleasure. Refraining from hurting others or breaking the law isn’t being “lovey dovey bleeding heart” variety; it’s being responsible and prudent. You are merely trying to be “all tough” in the laughable, puerile way that 14-year-old boys believe intrigues girls. It doesn’t; instead, it proves once again that you are an idiot.
No dude, the advice is not to have non-consensual sex. This is easy, you use words to ask DO YOU WANT SEX TIEM NOW PLEASE and if they say YES then you bang. Words can be used to signify objects, desires, or mental states.
See my above comment. I don’t care what your feelings are like, because I have no way of perceiving them. I care about your actions, which right now are douchey.
Orion: You are correct, the state has a burden to abide by the law in the obtaining of evidence. That someone collected something, with the intent of it being used as evidence, in a criminal manner isn’t forbidden; so long as they are not doing it at the behest of the police/state.
That, of course, doesn’t prevent the illegal manner of collection being used against them.
Hee hee… I didn’t realize alphas have the maturity of a five-year-old… That’s another edited comment! Shame I didn’t start screen-capping earlier…
Ah well.
What’s this about Brandon now? Still trying to justify his grand and ingenious plan to never be falsely accused of rape? Amazing he manages to get up in the morning, he might get struck by lightning or eaten by a land shark.
@Voip: While I tend to be introverted (I would rather read a book than go out and drink with a bunch of people), no one has said I behave as if I have Aspergers or any other mental illness. Nor do I think I have one. I just view life from a different perspective and have different priorities.
I empathize with people I have an emotional bond with: My friends, family, girlfriends. Not some random girl I met and have known for a few hours. If I empathized with everyone, I would be an emotional trainwreck and wouldn’t get anything accomplished. So I pick and choose who I empathize with. I will go above and beyond to protect my mother and father…I will just walk past the drunk chick that is throwing up in the street.
Paranoid and creepy? Ya to you. Whoopty doo. I have seen men been thought of as creepy with one girl only to have another girl fall all over them when he said the same thing. People react differently You might see it as creepy, while others will see it as cold, calculating and shrewd. I don’t walk around this life with the intension of living the way the women who comment on “manboobz” want me to live. So think I am creepy all you want. You are nobody and in the grand scheme of things, It doesn’t really matter.
Ya, I am not hoarding gold. I just think right now it is a good investment. If society collapsed, clothing, food, cars, gasoline, batteries, bullets and guns would be far more valuable. But I highly doubt that society is going to collapse. I do however think the government/The Fed will continue spending massive amounts of money and inflating the dollar to the point where it is useless. So I am long gold with a trailing stop so if it moves against me, my position will sell and I won’t have a loss.
If anything, I make decisions so that whatever happens, I don’t lose out.
@Kirby: It’s actually land whales. I avoid them at all costs.
So maybe you should only have sex with your friends and girlfriends.
Is that so unreasonable? Some people are able to build up enough trust with a stranger to feel safe with the intimate exposure and vulnerability casual sex requires, and you don’t seem to be one of them. So casual sex is not for you.
“Alcohol is evil, sXe for life!”
1) While it’s fine that you think that, do you also believe that people who disagree with you deserve to get raped? Because that’s what NWO was arguing, and there’s a huge difference between “Wow, I was so drunk last night, that sex was awful” and getting raped.
2) sXe? Seriously? Chin up, kid, life gets way better after middle school.
Remember when I said that this was about your actions, not your feelings? I didn’t ask you to feel any one way or another toward people, just not be a jerk toward them. And I really like how your example of “someone you don’t feel anything about” is ‘a drunk chick throwing up in the street.” Your misogyny is showing.
Insofar as your actions are provoking hostility from other people, you are already losing out. Behaving in a more empathy-like way towards others is actually more “cold, calculating and shrewd” than the way you are behaving right now. This is my point.
If you treat other people well, they’ll probably associate you with positive emotions and want to treat you well later. Altruism isn’t ” lovey dovey bleeding heart,” it’s more efficient than selfishness.
These false rape accusations being tossed about… where are they?
I’ve been in communities where casual sex with strangers was common. None of them were ever charged with rape (barring the rare case of statutory).
Over 20 years in those communities, thousands of people having sex hundreds of thousands of times… none of them charged with rape.
Amazing.
Those communities are also communities in which consent is a big deal (perhaps because so many people were having so much sex, often with people they had just met).
Maybe that’s the reason. People got consent, and that meant people weren’t actually committing rapes. If people don’t feel raped, perhaps they don’t accuse people of rape.
Brandon, when you are finally arrested/(sued?) for recording people having sex without their knowledge, there’s not going to be a lot of sympathy for the “but I’ve heard false rape statistics are anywhere from 2 to 60 percent! Why am I supposed to stop having sex with people I’ve only known for a few hours just because I don’t trust them?” argument.
Yep, so does everybody else. But not violating the rights of people you don’t have a special bond with is something everyone has to do in order for society to function. You don’t have to help them or go out of your way at all, you just have to not videotape them having sex without their consent.
“It’s actually land whales. I avoid them at all costs.”
GET IT GUYS FAT PEOPLE ARE FUNNY
@Voip: The gender was actually irrelevant. I would feel the same way about some frat boy throwing up in the street.
Ya, I don’t see me losing out. I have a good family, great friends and a sweet girlfriend. So far, life is pretty damn good. If I am losing out, then what is winning?
@Null: Can I tape them throwing up and post it up on YouTube?
@Brandon: Legally? I think so, if they’re in a public space. Ethically? I wouldn’t do it, on the off chance someone important to them would see it and it would damage their reputation. But if I heard about someone else doing it I’d be more inclined to think “that’s kind of dumb and immature” than “that is a horrible thing to do and I’m angry”. Meh.
@Null: You know how to not damage your reputation? Don’t get so wasted that you are throwing up in the street.
Alpha: PUA-speak for a man with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
How about a chick who’s not drunk throwing up in the street? Would you walk by too? If you were throwing up in the street, would you want someone to help you? Do you think that if some stranger spends a few seconds dialing 911, he is “losing” by helping you?
Once your girlfriend finds out that you cheat on her with women that you videotape without their consent, she’ll dump you. When you family finds out, they will lose respect for you. They may stand by you in a criminal prosecution because, while you are shit, you are their shit, but they will see you for what you are, and their further relationship with you will be about preserving their reputation, not promoting you. When your friends find out, they might stick around as long as they are the same immature circle-jerking Galt wannabes as yourself. But once they start families and careers, and especially after they have kids, they won’t have anything to do with you, believe me.
You lose because sociopathic behavior ultimately leads to you being alone, unloved, forgotten and uncared for.
You also lose because you commit sex crimes and save the evidence.
Life isn’t about winning vs. losing. You think precisely in the kinds of dichotomies that are so common to very young people who draw their “wisdom” from Hollywood movies and middle-brow books, and haven’t yet given their brains any serious exercise. Life is about solving problems, being a respectable, productive member of society, and leading a moral life that does not revolve around deliberately hurting people just because they aren’t your “friends”. A big part of life is also making occasional deposits into the social favor bank, because almost everyone needs to make a withdrawal at some point. As of now, you have a negative balance there.
Not acting in a way that will probably provoke hostility from others later. The way you describe your own actions, it sounds like you have the potential to create a lot of hurt feelings, anger, or resentment. That’s more people out there who are angry at you, and more potential sources of trouble for you, or fewer potential sources of help.
Making positive contacts with more people than just your friends, so that if you need something from them later they will feel like helping you. The more positive contacts you make, the more useful it is for you (and also for the people you are interacting with).
To explain the favor bank thing: the toes you step on today may be connected to an ass you’ll have to kiss tomorrow.
Oof, Amused said it better than I did. ):
Okay… but that doesn’t imply that I’m obligated to be the Bad Decision Police and tell everyone you know about it if I come upon you throwing up in the street. Putting aside any arguments about whether it would be ethical for me to put a video of you puking on Youtube, I just wouldn’t have any desire to do so.
Then why push them along, except out of malice toward them? It’s not like the camera leapt into your hand and compelled you to film them, you also have a choice here. Forget helping this person, just not hurting them sounds like a step up.
@Amused: Probably not. I would just walk by her in a effort to not get any of it on me.
1) I am not cheating on Ashley.
2) I am not taping anyone. I am just taking the pro-taping side of this issue.
3) I think my friends and family would be more upset with the woman who was falsely accusing me.
4) In the end, we are all forgotten. I don’t plan on having children or getting married. And I have accepted the drawbacks of those decisions. I still see the pro’s greatly outnumber the cons.
5) Life is about accomplishing goals and in order to do that, you have to actually overcome them (hence winning).
6) I am a productive member of society. I work enough to support myself and my basic needs. I see no need to overwork myself.
Alright, granted I haven’t been following the thread too closely… but how did we get from illegally taping people having sex with you to putting up videos of people puking on Youtube? And why does it matter?
Ah well, on our way to another 1,000 comment thread, so I can’t complain too much.
Oh, you mean you aren’t actually committing sexual exploitation, you are just pro-sexual exploitation side of the issue? Yeah, I can see how Ashley will TOTALLY side with you on that.
I think your friends and family, as well as the general public would be more upset with you for committing sex crimes against all the women who are not falsely accusing you. They would be equally upset with you for being pro-committing sex crimes against all the women who haven’t done a thing to harm you. I’d venture a guess they might also be upset with you for videotaping someone who turns out to be sick and posting it on Youtube for laughs.
Yeah, but some are forgotten sooner than others. Right now, you only see it as a pro — needy people leaving you the hell alone. Time will come when you will see it as a con — people who you want to do things for you, but don’t give a fuck about you. Marriage and children have nothing to do with this.
Well, if your goal is to be a pathetic douchebag, then I guess, congratulations? Ms. Winner?
Not hurting people = overworking oneself? Who knew?
@ kirby – The common element seems to be “creepy things that Brandon fantasizes about doing”.
@Amused: You see it as sexual exploitation, I see it as sexual protection.
How about not videotaping people without their consent, then? Cutting that out of your daily routine has got to save you some time and energy.
I love the, consistent, logic fail (who was the last one going on about how false accusations of murder were impossible without a body).
1: A body exists.
2: Someone is accused.
2a: That person did it, or didn’t.
Corollary to 2a: Since a large number of murders have no witnesses; and the victim is dead, the odds of a false accusation are higher than that for rape. A mendacious accusation of rape requires malice. A false accusation of murder only requires circumstance.
You don’t get to protect yourself by infringing upon the rights of others. It’s kind of a basic tenet of society.
One of these things is not like the others…oh, wait, sex involves an intervening actor. Drunk people have a right to not be assaulted, and that includes sexaul assault. If you beat someone, rape someone, run someone over with your car, etc. it is not defense that they are drunk. “Sex” without consent is rape. A person who is intoxicated is not competant to fully give consent. Therefore, having “sex” with them is rape. You are not allowed to rape people who are drunk. Boo fucking who for you.
@Brandon, you seriously can’t figure out how someone would be falsely accused of murder? Think it over and get back to us on that one.
Also, you are not just walking past someone when you have sex with them and tape it, you are actively engaging with them and doing stuff to them, you have a duty to treat people decently. And, just because we have sociopathic assholes like you, we put some of those duties into law to give an extra incentive for sociopathic assholes to behave properly.
On that note, would ppl please not conflate aspergers with sociopathy. Aspies just have trouble communicating and figuring out what others want and need. Sociopaths know their actions are unfair and harmful and don’t care. Brandon falls in the latter group, not the former. Most aspies have a very strong sense of justice and do not want to see people harmed. Unlike Brandon, who doesn’t give a fuck about anyone but himself (or perhaps his parents, leaving open the question of whether he is a sociopath or just an antisocial narcissist).
DSC, I don’t think anyone conflated the two.
Except as long as they don’t hurt anyone, there’s no reason to demonize sociopaths either.
Heehee, it’s fun huh kirbywarp? I wonder how many hits his blog got in the last 2 days.
Joanna! Moar rewrites!
I have screen caps of the changes, but sadly I don’t think it will matter. This guy’s blog is so empty that I’ve filled up the “latest comments” list. Who would I be proving anything to? Ah well…
His edits are getting rather intricate… Apparently now I’m the guy from elevatorgate…
…. Did you just respond to a comment made after yours? Did the system screw up, or do you have an amazing gift for precognition?