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It's very easy and it is stark fucking black and white when we're talking about psychics.
Psychics are bullshit, period. And when they're preying on people desperate for anything, they're also despicable people.
I'm still not sure what your point is.
what kind of climbing?
I have seen the lack of underwear on two women in the city thus far. Its one of those moments where you notice it, but saying anything to the person is impossible because "hey there I saw your vag you might want to change your pants" will always come across as total creeper.
there is no reason to say something.
To compare nerds feelings about psychics with Scientologists and their hatred of psychiatry, and fundamentalists and their hatred of abortion doctors. I understand the emotions, and aspire for the same degree of civility, but it's just not the norm in this world. While I would never pay for a psychic myself, I would be upset if that option was taken from me.
'Psychics' are in fact 100% fraudulent.
Inside a place, with things.
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No-one's arguing that we illegalize them or anything. We just want less acceptance of it.
Nobody's proposing banning psychics. They're still universally awful people, though.
Putting psychics and scientology on the same level as psychiatry is batshit.
...what kind of abortion providers have you gone to that they're comparable to psychics?
to be fair that's not what he's doing
the equivocation is that people who aren't ignorant are to psychics, as scientologists are to psychiatry and fundamentalists are to abortion doctors.
which I think is a poor one because all three cases are very different
the main difference in this specific case is a very simple one:
two are wrong and one is right.
he's not comparing psychics and abortion clinics.
It's weird to me that psychics are less regulated against than abortion doctors.
Maybe psychic abortion doctors would fare better.
He should be because combining the two is hilarious to me.
And I'm arguing against that sort of belligerence. Unless laws are enacted, I just don't see any positive coming from feeling of aggression over inconsequential things. Yes, if your family went bankrupt because your parents wasted all their money paying that palm reader trying to find your baby sister, I feel for you, but is this any different than a family that got talked into too much house/car for them? Or that invested in a negative expected value financial product, that had full disclosures?
One thing I've learned to value as I age is good information/knowledge. I understand wanting to not let liars perpetuate falsehoods, but everyone lies at some point or another. Whether to others or themselves, and I'm just saying that being aggressive towards fully lawful purveyors is a recipe for injustice.
wait, that's weird to you?
I mean
there's not really a lot of things about psychics that need regulation
since they do nothing
Baby benders?
You feel psychics have no value, fundamentalists feel abortion doctors have no value, is this logic not clearly similar?
Nah it's not really weird, that wasn't the right word.
Aggressive? The hell you're on about?
this isn't complicated.
charlatans of all stripes = bad
how do we get less of it? Legally ban it? No. No need, no cause for it.
Less ignorance going around = less charlatans.
Oh my god
We're gonna be dealing with a wave of spontaneous virgin births soon.
Right, but by homeopathic logic, that should cause increased fertility.
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They rarely are though. Most of them operate under a series of disclaimers that they are offering an entertainment experience only, they can't claim they can actually contact the dead (unless they're willing to evidence that claim somehow).
No.
Ian putting my foot down.
If we allow this shit to continue its only a matter of time before mushroom cuts come back.
Someone get the clippers and shave the rest of spock's dome
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
I agree, but I think summarizing the previous posts about psychics as anything, but aggressive is disingenuous.
Not even kinda. Groups that are opposed to Roe v Wade feel that abortion doctors are providing a value. It is just a value that they consider antithetical to a just and moral legal system, ie sanctioned murder/infanticide.
'Psychics' aren't providing a value that I consider to be wrong, they are simply not providing a value at all. Because they aren't actually psychic.
Good lord. Scientologists not liking psychiatry is not the same as "nerds" not liking psychics.
Fundamentalists tend to have issues with abortion doctors because they think they're murderers, not because they're charlatans. I don't think you'd find many people making the argument that abortion doctors are taking people's money and not actually carrying out the service they're selling.
That, they'd probably approve of, if anything.