User talk:Casionaut

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Father Vivian O'Blivion talk 03:46, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! Casionaut (talk) 11:09, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Category RWW?

Don't think the three articles you have RWW'd were anything to do with RWW Scream!! (talk) 12:18, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Eh...um...er... why did I do that? Casionaut (talk) 12:20, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

? Scream!! (talk) 12:29, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Ah, I see they were originally ON RWW so you're right, I'm wrong. Apologies. Scream!! (talk) 12:31, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

"all non-reproductive sexual desire is irrational"

What do you think about homosexuality? Just curious. Nullahnung (talk) 19:48, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Sexual desire is based on emotion, not logic. It is therefore irrational, just as other forms of pleasure-seeking are. Damn, I sound like Spock. Casionaut (talk) 19:51, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Ok, so now we've moved on to "all sexual desire is irrational", making the specifier of "non-reproductive" completely superfluous in that quote. (Sorry, this is my inner pedant acting out. If I'm being annoying, I'll stop.) Nullahnung (talk) 20:00, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

also I purposely put the original statement in those terms to troll the pedo. He wanted someone to rationally refute his desires, so I did, or at least tried to. Incidentally, even reproductive sexual desire is non-rational, as the continuation of the human race, while desirable, is not necessary in the greater scheme of things. Casionaut (talk) 20:06, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

To me rational behaviour is reasoned behaviour to deal with a problem one desires to solve. This means that sexual desire can't be rational or irrational just like it can't be wet or dry. Simply those descriptors do not apply. (This conversation is probably going to turn into a semantics discussion. I apologize in advance.) Nullahnung (talk) 20:16, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

An interesting point of view. Would you say that any pursuit of pleasure for its own sake is "irrational"? And, indeed, a definition of "irrational" might come in useful at some point. Though I'm inclined to agree with Nullahnung, perhaps an unusual event in itself , and state that such things probably don't belong on a rational/irrational scale anyway.--Bob^{"I think you'll find it's more complicated than that."} 20:36, 4 August 2014 (UTC)