When there's a dragon to slay, calling your mother-in-law for help won't earn you any respect, but WILL get the job done.
"Citizen, you are charged with the crime of humanizing the enemy at war time. If you have anything to say in your defense, shove it!"
"Are you okay?" — "I'm not sure; I can't seem to bring myself to focus, or care enough to figure out."
"My only mistake was designing that thing as a professional-scale enterprise, as opposed to someone's hobby project, as it turned out to be."
Worrying my ass off about the destructive impact my mistakes may have on the opinions i think others might be having about me.
There really should be a debate show in which opponents lose score for every fallacy, until, eventually, the other side gets a technical victory.
If you believe that 95% of the population are morons, you effectively define an upper limit on the size of your community; In which case you better also be believing that mere 5% is enough to move the world.
History provides plenty of examples where proper process led to the adoption of bad policies; What it doesn't provide, is examples of the opposite.
"I was a pretty weird kid. (beat) Then again, maybe all kids are weird. I don't really have basis for comparison."
Complacency is death; When life hits you in the face, smile, say "thank you" and ask for more.
For a change, the sauce on this dish, described as "slightly spicy", is indeed slightly spicy, as opposed to "made from liquid fire".
If everyone takes turns to kill the dragon and the dragon is always still there next time, it is reason enough to question the reality of the dragon.
The autonomy of the individual over their own body is not a right. It's an objective reality.
That society sometimes has difficulty coping, is a topic for a different discussion.
That society sometimes has difficulty coping, is a topic for a different discussion.
We hereby inform you of the fact we have nothing to inform you about. Regards, your insurance company.
The human mind is hopelessly and irrevocably hard-wired for pattern recognition. And it couldn't care less whether or not the patterns it recognizes have any basis in reality.
In reality, what you are trying to describe, does not work in the way you are trying to describe.
"...And while i feel reluctant to state my political opinion..." — "Why the heck not? You're a [direction]ist, aren't you? That's totally cool! State away, bro!"