[FRIAM] more Epstein fallout

[Frank Wimberly]

Did you put the dewinged Greenhead out of its misery?

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Frank Wimberly



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On Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 2:53 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, the logic seems right.
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> But … just to take the Epstein case … doesn’t that presume that abusing
> women feels good?
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> I just have never see how that works,
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> In the marshland around where grew up, there were these enormous flies,
> with beaklike mouthparts for biting…Greenheads, they were called.  They
> used to come into our barn at night, and then congregate on the inside of
> the windows during the day, frantic to get out.  I once caught one and took
> its wings off to see what would happen.  I never did it again.  It didn’t
> feel good.
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> So, either having great power over people changes the nature of what feels
> good, OR, there are some people for whom making others feel bad makes them
> feel good. I would say that these latter folks need to be quarantined.  And
> if keeping people from becoming wealthy is prophylactic, I say tax the
> daylights out of the rich.
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> Nick
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Marcus Daniels
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 12, 2020 11:54 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] more Epstein fallout
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> Nick writes:
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> “Why does the potentiality entail the desire?
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>  I *can* plunge a dinner fork into the back of my hand, right now.
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>  Surely, you don’t expect me to do so, just because I can.”
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> The premise is that people do things that feel good, and things that are
> apparently free from negative consequences.
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> Neither would be true with this use of a dinner fork.   It might feel good
> to plunge the dinner fork into the hand of an impolite dinner guest.
> Whether that would be free of consequences would depend on the relative
> quality of your respective lawyers and the physical strength of your
> guest.
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> Marcus
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