What frustrates me about this Texas shooting.

[enki23]

47. Do you prefer "willfully ignorant?"

But oh, you've convinced me. You win. I have been resorting to supernatural knowledge. I'll play super agnostic instead.

It is possible, and therefore likely, so don't anybody say otherwise, that these poor victims, who are members of an explicitly anti-Muslim group, had no idea that they might receive a useful propaganda tool when they engaged in an activity that has previously provided them with useful propaganda tools. The cops were all there mostly on accident. No one could have anticipated this. Because no one had supernatural knowledge of the future. Something about the problem of induction. David Huuuuuuuuuuume! Standards of evidence, people. We hold them very, very high. Pretending to talk about observed human behavior is exactly like knowledge of gods and ghosts. We don't know any of these things exist. They could have been programmed to do this by an alien intelligence. So everyone stop pretending you know anything about their motives even when they've been telling us their motives and doing things that are likely to help achieve their goals. That just isn't good enough. We have to pretend not to have that knowledge, and pretend that they did not have that knowledge. We must become fucking dense.


Yeah. You can have that "win." Welcome to it. But holy shit, dense isn't even the word. You've gotta be fucking impenetrable.