Saying and doing are 2 different things. I will not stoop down to the level of the majority because I do have self respect and standards.
The meaningless refrain. I was hoping for something better than this.
Forget your self-respect and your standards; your right to both ended when you wandered in here and accused Dekker of being a deceitful bastard for no absolute reason. Cling to them if you wish, now that they have proved hollow and empty, hypocritical and spiteful.
Perhaps you've had poor experiences, as you've alluded to very vaguely. A pity, but that confers on you no right to judge, and especially no right to judge from incomplete information. I have too. I still, it seems, retain my ability to think things through before I ill-advisedly make accusations against other posters here. (On the other hand, this does not explicitly rule out non-romantic sex I guess. I regard more than one person as an intimately close friend. You could even argue that romance is totally irrevelant to the question, the way I see things.)
For in the end, when there are no secrets kept and no illusions otherwise maintained, is it truly so horrible that two people enjoy each other's company for awhile? Yes?
Why?
EDIT: Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, you had to go and edit it too. Down the rabbit hole we go then.
Saying and doing are 2 different things. At least I don't do certain things and doing is more damaging than saying and actions speak louder than words. I will not stoop down to the level of the majority because I do have self respect and standards and I will not act like a primitive animal. I don't care what you think about that.
We've been here, but oh well. There are few ways less convincing to prove you don't care then to state it. The "act like a primitive animal" is facetious and possibly outright stupid; will you stop eating too? That's about the same level of biological impulse.
Actions speak louder than words. But the pen is mightier than the sword. And I fear for your "wisdom" reaching someone who might be impressed by it. The power of thoughts is that they are communicable. Some of them come closer to the concept of a disease then others.
Also, I don't play with people's hearts or treat them like objects for fun and sex. If you think about it, it is also childish to do that with one you don't love because it shows those people want the so-called fun without the responsibilty of a relationship and can't take it seriously, and not taking responsibility is childish.
Who said anything about love? Non sequitor. Being an object isn't really so bad, either, but I'm not going to go there with you because I'm not sure you could handle the paradigm shift. The second sentence borders on circular logic, without quite being it, but it does manage to be erronous anyways at least.
You also know you can get certain STDs just from kissing someone who has it (do research), and people who are bad deserve it, so I will feel no sympathy.
What the freaking hell? Out of left field comes an outright threat to the audience, and it's a pretty bull**** one to boot! That you mixed this in here at all is deeply disturbing.
Also, if one does that when it isn't a deep relationship, then one can't truly feel happy and it won't last, but often times these days, people don't have much of an ability to feel guilt. The truth hurts. I'm just happy to know I'm not a part of that.
Poor fool. Happiness is what you make of it. Who are you to judge what is and is not "true happiness"? What gives you the mystical insight into such things that philosophy has sought and failed to find for ages? Likewise, human capacity for guilt is endless, but it is also usually specific. We must do something without meaning to to feel guilty about it.
After all, your western train of thought actually encourages saying your opinion, so don't complain. I will say it.
Perhaps.
But it also encourages thought before speech, the less to make yourself look like an idiot. And worse than that, I have the right to complain about your opinion by those very same rules that you have the right to express it.
Actually, what is truly hilarious is you and others seem to give into peer pressure and do whatever you are brain washed to think is cool. That shows lack of mental strength. That is how it is in the world. People often do what others do and can't resist, especially if the stuff others are doing is not good and is harmful to health among other things. But that also is not my problem.
I seem to have you beat silly in my original reply. Oh dear. Perhaps another whack with the clue-by-four?
"On some level I suppose I agree with you; sex is the ultimate expression of intimacy to me, and for me is therefore unthinkable unless I consider you intimately close already."
If a person is going to live a certain way, then they shouldn't complain when they are treated a certain way and not respected, because in life, if you do certain things and act a certain way, you often times have to take the baggage that comes with it and take the responsibility.
But the responsiblity you assign is flimsy, stupidly rationalized into a situation it does not belong to. The burden of proof is here, it is waiting; you never picked it up. You never made the case, never thought enough to see that you are painting many things with the same brush that carry far more shades of meaning then you seem to comprehend.
