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I edited a sentence to try to make the tone a little more neutral.  It's notable that some people think animals have feelings, and some people simply don't believe they do, and could naturally compare them to rocks or pencils but still be very caring people.  Personally, I believe animals feel suffering as strongly as we do, but I've never had the opportunity to argue this to exhaustion.  This is an age-old argument, studied regularly by college students, that I suppose could bear reference in the explanation.  [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.166|162.158.78.166]] 13:17, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
 
I edited a sentence to try to make the tone a little more neutral.  It's notable that some people think animals have feelings, and some people simply don't believe they do, and could naturally compare them to rocks or pencils but still be very caring people.  Personally, I believe animals feel suffering as strongly as we do, but I've never had the opportunity to argue this to exhaustion.  This is an age-old argument, studied regularly by college students, that I suppose could bear reference in the explanation.  [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.166|162.158.78.166]] 13:17, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
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Is "everyone '''on''' here" correct English? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.186.52|172.69.186.52]] 10:30, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

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Genius reference in the title text to 'throwing shade', linking modern slang with something 2,400 years earlier! --OliReading (talk) 13:33, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Should I be concerned that I got the Plato reference from >2K years ago, but had to look up what "throwing shade" is? I feel so old now.Daemonik (talk) 15:26, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
You're not the only one, if that makes you feel better!162.158.94.32 16:51, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, first time entry editor, turned out I really couldn't add that much but I just really wanted to at least put this. I mean, what an awesome joke! Lheticus (talk) 13:50, 12 November 2018 (UTC)


Remember that other comic strip where he was imagining a bad opinion, looked up to see if other people had it, and then preemptively writing online about how horrible an opinion it is? This could be a callback to it, except as viewed from somebody who is friends with the person writing about it. I'd mention this in the explanation part of this strip, except I can't remember which comic that comes from. Does anybody remember? Or even what the title was so I can search the title? Jeudi Violist (talk) 17:31, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

"Bad Opinions" (https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2051:_Bad_Opinions). I did a site search on the word "Opinions" to find it. -boB (talk) 18:49, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

I dunno if it's such a terrible opinion. Sounds like a perfectly reasonable use of the animals -- make them productive (albeit for a limited time) rather than a (lengthy) drain on resources. 172.68.58.209 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

You must have some awful friends! 172.68.58.53 10:19, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

The post in the comic reminds me of some of the "straw man" arguments I've seen over the years - make up a horrific argument for the purposes of shooting it down, in an effort to create support for the opposite argument. It's a deplorable, but regrettably common, social media tactic these days. In the comic, this would imply (falsely) that the poster's other friends support the awful argument. 162.158.78.10 12:20, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

This comment was given by someone Randall presumably knows and trusts; no evidence is given his friend is not responding to genuine comments others have made. And given some of the trolling that happens, it would not surprise me if trolls did make the exact comments Randall's friend's "friends" made, for their own humor's sake. So I'd say this is likely more an example of someone taking the troll's bait hook, line, and sinker rather than someone trying to make up a straw man argument. -boB (talk) 16:51, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

I edited a sentence to try to make the tone a little more neutral. It's notable that some people think animals have feelings, and some people simply don't believe they do, and could naturally compare them to rocks or pencils but still be very caring people. Personally, I believe animals feel suffering as strongly as we do, but I've never had the opportunity to argue this to exhaustion. This is an age-old argument, studied regularly by college students, that I suppose could bear reference in the explanation. 162.158.78.166 13:17, 13 November 2018 (UTC)


Is "everyone on here" correct English? 172.69.186.52 10:30, 14 November 2018 (UTC)