And no man who claims he has a "husband" can be trusted to speak correctly about logic, let alone morals. You are not married anymore than you are a crocodile.
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Who appointed Vox the arbiter of word definitions? Sorry, Bunky, if the state says someone is married, they're married. If your church or personal beliefs say otherwise, the state doesn't care, any more than if you claim you're exempt from needing a driver's or business license, paying taxes, or obeying traffic laws.
...and no man who fucked off to Italy - and is universally reviled by the SFWA: and beyond - can be trusted to have the right to think about morals.
You are no more a Sci-Fi writer than you are an American citizen.
No man who makes such ridiculous claims about language can be trusted to speak correctly about linguistics.
Language is evolving constantly, based on popular usage. As such, a man can have a husband because it is both a part of the law, and common parlance.
Can he explain why someone who marries a same-sex companion is somehow rendered incapable of logic or morals? (That's rhetorical: Vox can't do that, or anything else, without playing his silly little word-games wherein he sees himself as super-mod of the English language.)
He can't appeal to a higher power for information about morals unless he can first prove such a being exists. And he can't.
Fallacious appeals to some natural law won't work either, and for most of the same reasons.
Since "pure" logic is mathematical and deductive , then anyone arguing from logic needs to show his work and can, if he knows how to use the symbols . (I just linked easy introductions for him, and anyone else interested - some 'explain-it-like-I'm-four' tools for this task. Now he is entirely without excuse, assuming he ever had one to begin with.)
Straight up fucking mathematical logic, Voxxy - let's see it. (Naturally not. Most human matters, messy outside of a textbook, require inductive reasoning...but I don't think Vox is capable of that, either.)
@Demon Duck of Doom:
"He once created an 18-button computer mouse called the WarMouse; it was originally called the OpenOffice.org mouse until Sun Microsystems took issue with unauthorized use of their trademark.[79] Why it never occurred to him that cramming so many buttons plus a joystick into a space occupied normally by no more than four buttons was anything but a UI abomination, no one really knows. Maybe he's really into World of Warcraft."Rational Wiki
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The "super-intelligence" put half a fucking keyboard on a mouse?
I can kind of see a thumb-operated joystick working out for FPS players or other action-heavy games that require a player to move, aim, and use various hotkeys that might not all be in easy reach of the designated movement buttons or suffer issues from too much input at once but how the hell would you comfortably manipulate anything else on that affront to practicality?
Damn, that thing's a monstrosity. Google "ProHance Power Mouse" if you wanna see worse, though. 40 buttons!
(For some damn reason I can't seem to copy a link to a picture on my phone...)
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