The Glade 4.0

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

sure. if you're willing to accept false analogies as determinant you can "win" any argument.

"Pleased to be?" Please to quantify.

What's false about this analogy? Humans are even more likely to learn such behavior than lesser animals.

The only difference is: as a society we're willing to accept an occasional bear starving to death. For one reason or another we've decided we can't let other humans suffer that fate.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Holy ****, that's one of my all-time greatest hits.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

The quote is published and attributed to a "known, but wishes to remain anonymous" source.

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Baby girl, you and me, nothing but mammal...

I'm willing to do it like they do on the Discovery Channel, but that's one expensive booty call.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Yeah that is a heft price tag for a lay.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Something about that bear gives me the impression it's not so much a matter of him becoming dependent as him having fooled all of us into giving him a pic-i-nic bas-ket.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Yeah but no one wants him to eat Booboo... the cute one.

Well, to play devil's advocate here, where does the Department of Agriculture say that it has a no feeding policy "because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care for themselves"?

That sounds like something the person who created the poster just made up to make for a more compelling argument. There's a bunch of reasons not to feed wild animals that have nothing to do with them becoming dependent.

Well, as I work for the Park Service, that is definitely one of the reasons we tell people why they shouldn't feed them. Like you said, there are others, but this seems to be the one most people "get". It still doesn't stop them though.

*edit: The NPS is part of the Department of the Interior, and not Agriculture like the picture claims, for accuracy. I believe the Forest Service is Agriculture though.

What's kinda funny now is there are a number of liberals I know trying to demonize that argument by claiming it "calls people who are on welfare animals".

We're all "animals."

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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M'lady...