Asymmetrical Information

Well, I believe we can all agree that "unjustified aggression against others" is wrong. Just like we can all agree that "justified aggression" is entirely permissible.

Define your terms as you wish. Agreeing to the terms is merely stating a truism.

I think the term "sanctimonious dorks" should be used more often. It applies to so many people. And, as Dave Barry would say, it would make a great name for a band.

Presumably the irony of your having then gone away to write a sanctimonious comment about them on your own website isn't lost?

Presumably the irony of a sanctimonious comment in response to a sanctimonious response to sanctimonious dorks isn't lost on you, dsquared?

And round and round we go.

But we don't have to affirm Dreck's comment to get to this site. That might offer a slight distinction. But recursive sanctimony-bashing is always fun!

and hell, the menu at the restaurant looks yummy

It reminds me of the usual final step before having a given program installed on one's computer. You're given the choice of agreeing or not to the terms of service of the software provider. If you don't agree, you don't get to use the program. Legally, this might be a needed step so that the provider is absolved of liability.

To have the same process to get into a website is mere stupidity, as the webmaster can't tell whether you're lying just to get to see the pretty pictures.

Relax, clicking the "yes-man" link won't convert you into an IndyMedia protege. Contracts of that sort rarely stand a test in court.

As others have noted, the phrasing makes the test useless anyway.

"Support for unjustified aggression against others."

Well, of course noone supports *unjustified* aggression. I suspect the website's author and I might disagree on what constitutes "justified" aggression, but we certainly agree that unjustified aggression is bad.

Old European bullshit is a redundant phrase.

(...sorry, I know, cheap shot...)

It's worse than people seem to realize.

"Cultural awareness is the very basis for an understanding of the content of this site. Support for unjustified aggression against others rules out any such consciousness...I agree with this"

You might disaprove of unjustified agression, but I bet you don't agree with them that those who do approve of it can't appreciate architecture.

D^2 - you're right, I should have declared 'Jihad' instead (mirror). Might that have been the irony-free path here?

Oh, God. D-squared has found Asymmetric Information. There goes the neighborhood.

Jane, Mindles, you have all my sympathies.

Doesn't "cultural awareness" merely mean that one is aware of the existance of cultures?

Francis, he found it months ago. And with a few notable (and welcome) exceptions, his rhetoric hasn't risen much above what you saw here.

IOW annoying, but mostly harmless.

What amuses me is the thought that these ancient civilizations would have endured without quite a bit of aggression (justified or otherwise) against their neighbors.

Amusing. I am thinking of Louis XIV, the Sun King and builder of Versailles. His aggression was unjustified by any normal standards and in the opinion of most of his neighbors, who his endless wars gradually united against France. He was also a patron of the arts of such generosity and exquisite taste that he himself was practically a creative force, and a foundation stone of French and European culture.

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