What would you do?

[hermes2015]

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A stranger walks up to you in a store and punches you in the face.

What do you do?

I am a coward, so would run away while I'm still alive.

[billy rubin]

i am a pacifist, so my first strategy is run away as well.

but i am also a non-theist, and have no real justification for pacifism.

so if he followed me, found me, and presented a serious threat to my life or safety, or if he threatened anyone in my family, i would kill him.

[hermes2015]

i am a pacifist, so my first strategy is run away as well.

but i am also a non-theist, and have no real justification for pacifism.

so if he followed me, found me, and presented a serious threat to my life or safety, or if he threatened anyone in my family, i would kill him.

I'm with you there, but I don't think a belief in any gods is a justification for pacifism; probably just the opposite.

[billy rubin]

" . . . just the oppo site?"

what do you mean, hermes?[

[hermes2015]

" . . . just the oppo site?"

what do you mean, hermes?[

I mean that I think theists are less like to be pacifists, but perhaps I misunderstood what you meant.

[No one]

My philosophy, if I am going to die, you're coming with me, mother fucker!

[Bad Penny II]

Depends on dimensions and characteristics of the hitter.
Aquaman/Conan/Khal Drogo/Ronon: Run/crawl away if not dead before I get hit again.
Woody Allan: Hit him back.
Old demented dude: Watch and don't get hit again

What would you do: Someone who tells all "don't give me chocolates" gets your chocs, reads the descriptions and eats all the best ones.

[billy rubin]

" . . . just the oppo site?"

what do you mean, hermes?[

I mean that I think theists are less like to be pacifists, but perhaps I misunderstood what you meant.

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i see. in america mainstream protestants are certainly routinely violent, and roman fatholics practice their just wars. but quake4s, mennonites, brethren, amish, and seventh day adventists are all explicit pacifists.

modern protestant quakers depart from it to the extent that theydepart from traditional quakerism.

[jumbojak]

You start a simple forum game that devolves into a discussion of pacifist philosophy when nobody follows the rules, what do you do?

[billy rubin]

you walk up to em in a store and punch em in the face.

what would you do if one day nobody recognized you, nobody had ever heard of you, and there was no trace of your past existence anywhere but in your memory?

[No one]

Banish them to Ken Ham's arc.

You wake up as the opposite sex, what do you do?

[Dark Lightning]

Masturbate like crazy before I change back. A vagina can't lose an erection after orgasm!

You're walking on the sidewalk looking at your cell phone and don't see the open manhole. You fall in. What would you do?

[jumbojak]

Hope I didn't break both legs on the landing and then try to climb out.

There's an active volcano forming in your backyard. What do you do?

[billy rubin]

immortalize myself through my footprints.



you discover that the floods have soaked all your photographs. you can save the historic family albums that go back 100 years, or the only pictures of your own young children that you will ever have. which do you keep?

[jumbojak]

I keep my children. The Dead can bury themselves.

Your last dollar can be spent on a candy bar or a lottery ticket. What do you do?