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.
“If you” should be “If not”
I haven’t read an Ayn Rand book cover to cover. I tried reading Atlas, but it was so damn dry and boring I couldn’t even bother finishing it. I also don’t subscribe to her philosophy of objectivism.
And just for shits and giggles, I took the empathy test at OKcupid. Strangely it summed me up pretty well. Friends, family and loved ones = empathetic. Complete strangers = could give a fuck less.
http://www.okcupid.com/quizzy/results?quizzyid=2240560109112545646&resultid=2
darksidecat:
What I’m saying is that it’s possible to recognise on an intellectual level that the wellbeing and interests of others are important, without instinctively feeling emotions in concert with their emotions.
Also, if all we have to go on is peoples’ actions, their outward behavior, how does it help to call one set of motivations “genuine” and another set of motivations “superficial”? If everyone acts appropriately, and considering that I have no way of really knowing what goes on in someone else’s mind, the distinction between “genuine”/”good” motivations and “superficial”/”bad” motivations is irrelevant as far as society is concerned.
You “on’t like” all of them? As a group? No matter what each one has or has not done? That’s a pretty hardcore dismissal. Do you believe that someone who has no empathy can be ethical?
kristinmh:
I thought he was an AI that was attaining self-awareness for the very first time.
Huh, I almost didn’t notice this:thanks for coming to the conclusion that people with mental disorders shouldn’t be locked up unless they hurt people, I guess, but the fact that you’re even entertaining the idea of punishing people who haven’t done anything for having a disability is, I’m sorry, kind of fucked up.
Brandroid the Angry Robot with Malfunctioning Logic Circuits! (Kid’s show? Or maybe Adult Swim show ’cause of all the voyeuristic videotaping and rapey creepiness and total lack of coherent moral system?)
I don’t think anyone here actually has been considering punishing people with disabilities. And I do think it’s fair to give someone who literally could not care less about the welfare of other human beings (especially someone as gleeful about it as Brandon) a little more side-eye than a person who likes washing their hands a lot or something. Any action beyond having a little caution would be punitive, I suppose; at least that’s how I read the “punish” line, to mean nothing beyond caution would be appropriate or right.
Brandroid comes with a built in camera that it can use to film all its sexual activities. This is totally OK because its AI is very heavily encrypted and unbreakable by law enforcement, since you’re not allowed to become a cop if you’ve ever touched a computer before.
I kind of feel like Brandon is turning into a much less charismatic Bender… :p
Brandon Branding Rodriguez.
When you say his name backwards, he disappears.
Darksidecat said that there were “good policy reasons not to punish sociopaths until they commit harm” as though whether or not we should punish innocent people had been up for debate. Of course there are good policy reasons not to punish sociopaths who haven’t committed any crime, it’s because they haven’t committed any crime.
OK, what I keep saying here is that it’s possible to work for the welfare of other people, and realize that it’s important on an intellectual level, without feeling any empathy toward them. That these are two different issues.
Like I said above, I’ve got Asperger’s. And I don’t know whether or not I’m capable of empathy, if by “empathy” you mean “feeling emotions as though with another, catalyzed by the emotions of another.” I feel bad or good for other people, sometimes, but I don’t feel things with them. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t know that a just society is one in which everyone’s treated fairly and harm is minimized. To think that I’m just automatically incapable of morality is ableist.
Also, considering that Brandon spouts off at great length about his empathy for his family, friends, and (here I’m really doubtful, considering his previous remarks) girlfriend, I’m inclined to think he’s just an Internet Libertarian who’s confused being cold with being a badass.
Zeugirdor Gnidnarb Nodnarb.
Is he gone? Can we get back to mocking MRAs now? Or do you need to say his name three times?
Brandon
Brandon
Brandon… Oh crap, that summons him again… RUN! EVERYONE RUN AWAY!
BRANDON
BRANDON
Brandon of Puppets I’m pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can’t see a thing
Just call my name, ’cause I’ll hear you scream
BRANDON
BRANDON
His ideas are random,
Obey your Brandon!
WHAT DO YOU WANT, MORTAL?
This is hysterical.
VoiP, I said I give side-eye to people that don’t care if other people are harmed in any way; that sure doesn’t describe any Aspies I know. Even if feeling the emotions of another person doesn’t come organically or easily that doesn’t mean most people on the spectrum are like “lol, I literally think it’s fine for hobos to die if it doesn’t inconvenience me.” I mean, obviously I don’t have to tell you this, but I want to make it clear that I don’t think that 99.99% of non-neurotypical people are any more concerning than anyone else. But when someone is a sociopath or pedophile I think that’s the 0.01% where there is reason to believe their specific brand of non-neurotypical could harm someone.
And I certainly don’t want to derail onto this topic… especially ’cause I honestly do think Brandon is just puffed up on his narcissism and bullshit and freshman “Nihilism 101” and false sense of invulnerability, and I don’t think he’s any brand of non-neurotypical so much as he’s just a brash, foolish and douchey entitled brat. So it’s kind of a moot point what I think of sociopaths, because I doubt that one would be so bluntly assholish and obvious in the first place; it’s not very bright or self-serving to brag about your various crimes is it? :p
(That’s right, Brandon, I don’t believe you are a sociopath because I think you are too stupid. Similarly I don’t believe you will be illegally videotaping many ladies because I doubt many would ever want to come home with you. Congrats; your own foolish douchebaggery is your best character defense. ;p)
OK, I really don’t want to contribute to this derail, but…my best friend is Aspie, and my ex is a (diagnosed) sociopath. These are not in any way the same conditions, and the way of seeing the world and behavioral tendencies of individuals with these two conditions is not in any way similar.
My friend who’s Aspie sometimes finds it hard to read my moods, which leads to miscommunication. My ex tried to hang his own brother when the brother was a toddler, just to see if he’d turn blue, and punched his mother in the face hard enough to knock her out when he was 21 because they were having an argument and he wanted it to be over so that he could go do bed.
Not the same condition, at all.
@Bagelsan: Ya…that’s exactly what I said. Let’s all go on a hobo killing spree!
Ya, I am brash, have been and will be foolish again and I don’t expect anything from anyone so I can’t really say I am entitled.
What crimes? smoking weed when I was younger? My rap sheet is non-existent, I also have worked for non-profits so that rules me out as a pedo too since I have to get a SORI and CORI check.
Someone who’s been screened by a non-profit is guaranteed not to be a pedophile (who hasn’t been caught doing anything illegal), or to commit acts of pedophilia in the future?
Brandon logic at its finest, folks.
Ah…now the “you can’t get laid” bit. I really don’t have any problem in that department. Going from a shy, meek kid in high school and not getting any to “a douchebag” (in your parlance) has been the best thing for my sex life. While I wouldn’t say women flock, but it certainly comes a lot easier being brash and aloof than acting caring and attentive.
Maybe this article is right…it worked for me:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-women-really-do-love-selfobsessed-psychopaths-850007.html
@Cassandra: Your going to go that route? Seems pretty damn flimsy to me. Plus, I tend to go the other way. I have a thing for cougars.
I’m not saying that you are a pedophile (I see no reason to think that you would be), just that your being screened at one point for a job doesn’t in any way eliminate the possibility that you might be one, or might commit acts of pedophilia in the future. Your example doesn’t prove the thing that you think it does.
Brandon, you’re not even a psychopath or anything; you’re just kind of whiny and spoiled. Seriously. There’s nothing wrong with you that a little (okay, a lot) of self-examination and getting-out-in-the-world couldn’t fix. “Me me me!” is childish and boring, not intriguing or badass.
@Bagelsan: Ah yes, now I am spoiled. Me and my lower middle class job and second hand car are now spoiled.
Maybe this is just me, but I don’t think that one’s car and job are what make one spoiled or not-spoiled. The two things are kind of unrelated.
Although I might be inclined to call Brandon self-centered and unaware from what I’ve seen of him.
There is a lot more to being spoiled then having nice things Brandon.