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26 Post author: loup-vaillant 30 June 2011 03:30PM

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Comment author: Dorikka 30 June 2011 05:44:39PM 2 points [-]

I'm failing to parse your comment.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 30 June 2011 07:04:12PM 5 points [-]

I think Peterdjones means that Objectivists would be good people for Loup-Vaillant to hang out with, to teach him what it feels like to be subjected to obnoxious argumentation and make him realize on a gut level that it doesn't help and causes needless unhappiness. I suspect from personal experience that it would backfire--I tend to act more like the people I hang out with, and I was a lot more obnoxious when I spent time on Pharyngula before coming here--but YMMV.

At least, that makes more sense to me than Peterdjones actually wanting Loup-Vaillant to eat Objectivists.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 30 June 2011 10:03:41PM 0 points [-]

I interpret it as "Objectivists would be food (food is struck out to indicate a mixture of humor and hostility)-- a good opportunity to dump anger and feel like you're winning arguments, or should be.