Blackthornone
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This is a carry over from this thread.:
https://sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67587&page=98
I am not obnoxious. Obnoxious: highly objectionable or offensive; odious: Scalpers deprive people of buying things by buying them first. That is highly objectionable to anyone who wants to buy a piece. Scalpers also sell a piece for more money than retail, and since no one wants to pay more than retail for something, they find the idea of paying more than retail objectionable, and therefore, scalping is obnoxious. Furthermore, someone bragging about the fact that they did or do this is being obnoxious, because they are calling attention to their behavior which is logically objectionable. Scalpers BEGIN the objectionable behavior, and I object to the objectionable behavior.
I am not petty. Petty: 1. of little or no importance or consequence: petty grievances. If scalping was of little or no importance, than no one would do it in the first place, now would they?
By the very act of doing it, they demonstrate that it has importance.
Because I am objecting to an act that has significance, because if it did not, scalpers would not do it, that proves that my objection is not petty, because to the scalper, the scalping isn't petty, either.
Redundant? Ok, I am indeed redundant.
I am not priggish. Prig: 1. A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner. Exaggerated conformity or propriety? compared to what? compared to the opinions of those who commit sociopathic acts like scalping? Of course, but they are wrong. Logically, one must be objective in determining the proper application of such word, and since SSC has established a 1 unit per customer, they have therefore defined what correct behavior is, and furthermore scalping violates the golden rule, which has been the determining method for common sense ethics for hundreds of years. Scalping IS a big deal. If it wasn't a big deal, then no one would do it, would they. You can't on the one hand say it's a big deal to be able to make money that way, and at the same time, say that it is not a big deal that people make money that way. It is an inconsistent argument.
By the way, the official word for this behavior on this forum is is SCALPING, as defined by Darklord Dave, in the commerce section. It isn't flipping. Flipping is for houses. Darklord Dave has said that scalping is discouraged on this forum. Taking that statement as sincere, shouldn't ALL pro scalping discussion ALSO be discouraged on this forum? Obviously, talking positively about it tends to promote said belief, which encourages said belief, which violates the policy of the forum, which is that scalping is discouraged.
I don't admonish other members. I admonish scalping. It only comes up when someone brags about the fact that they are scalping, which is discouraged on this forum. Perhaps I would even volunteer to act as an anti scalping comment mod. Whenever a pro scalping comment comes up, I could edit it out.
Scalping bothers me a lot. The fact that no one else seems to discourage it or say anything against it to me puts me in the position of being responsible for taking action, because I feel that if something needs to be done, and no one else will do it, then I have to. I don't really like that. I find it aggravating. That fills me with hate. That hate fills me with passion to write long and drawn out posts on the issue of scalping.
I like to see justice done. I don't feel right about letting it go, because that means giving up on justice, and giving up on the world, and that is an extremely depressing notion. If people want the anti scalping posts to stop than how about all pro scalping posts stop? People who post pro scalping posts do so with the purpose of antagonizing other people who don't have a certain item that they have three of, by breaking the rules. How about ALL scalping conversation stop, both for as well as against? Wouldn't that be reasonable?
No, not 100% of the threads I post in turn into a sermon. It's actually a very small percentage. It's just that my posts are so memorable, that it just SEEMS to be 100% to some people who like scalping, who hater being reminded of the wrongness of it, even though they have NOOO problem bring up scalping in the first place. It's called hypocrisy.
People who think that pro scalping posts are ok, and who don't think that anti scalping posts are ok, are hypocrites, ESPECIALLY on a forum in which scalping is discouraged.
https://sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31116
See rule 2:
"2) Scalping (buying items solely with the intention of immediately selling them to other collectors) is discouraged. "
https://sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67587&page=98
I am not obnoxious. Obnoxious: highly objectionable or offensive; odious: Scalpers deprive people of buying things by buying them first. That is highly objectionable to anyone who wants to buy a piece. Scalpers also sell a piece for more money than retail, and since no one wants to pay more than retail for something, they find the idea of paying more than retail objectionable, and therefore, scalping is obnoxious. Furthermore, someone bragging about the fact that they did or do this is being obnoxious, because they are calling attention to their behavior which is logically objectionable. Scalpers BEGIN the objectionable behavior, and I object to the objectionable behavior.
I am not petty. Petty: 1. of little or no importance or consequence: petty grievances. If scalping was of little or no importance, than no one would do it in the first place, now would they?
By the very act of doing it, they demonstrate that it has importance.
Because I am objecting to an act that has significance, because if it did not, scalpers would not do it, that proves that my objection is not petty, because to the scalper, the scalping isn't petty, either.
Redundant? Ok, I am indeed redundant.
I am not priggish. Prig: 1. A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner. Exaggerated conformity or propriety? compared to what? compared to the opinions of those who commit sociopathic acts like scalping? Of course, but they are wrong. Logically, one must be objective in determining the proper application of such word, and since SSC has established a 1 unit per customer, they have therefore defined what correct behavior is, and furthermore scalping violates the golden rule, which has been the determining method for common sense ethics for hundreds of years. Scalping IS a big deal. If it wasn't a big deal, then no one would do it, would they. You can't on the one hand say it's a big deal to be able to make money that way, and at the same time, say that it is not a big deal that people make money that way. It is an inconsistent argument.
By the way, the official word for this behavior on this forum is is SCALPING, as defined by Darklord Dave, in the commerce section. It isn't flipping. Flipping is for houses. Darklord Dave has said that scalping is discouraged on this forum. Taking that statement as sincere, shouldn't ALL pro scalping discussion ALSO be discouraged on this forum? Obviously, talking positively about it tends to promote said belief, which encourages said belief, which violates the policy of the forum, which is that scalping is discouraged.
I don't admonish other members. I admonish scalping. It only comes up when someone brags about the fact that they are scalping, which is discouraged on this forum. Perhaps I would even volunteer to act as an anti scalping comment mod. Whenever a pro scalping comment comes up, I could edit it out.
Scalping bothers me a lot. The fact that no one else seems to discourage it or say anything against it to me puts me in the position of being responsible for taking action, because I feel that if something needs to be done, and no one else will do it, then I have to. I don't really like that. I find it aggravating. That fills me with hate. That hate fills me with passion to write long and drawn out posts on the issue of scalping.I like to see justice done. I don't feel right about letting it go, because that means giving up on justice, and giving up on the world, and that is an extremely depressing notion. If people want the anti scalping posts to stop than how about all pro scalping posts stop? People who post pro scalping posts do so with the purpose of antagonizing other people who don't have a certain item that they have three of, by breaking the rules. How about ALL scalping conversation stop, both for as well as against? Wouldn't that be reasonable?
No, not 100% of the threads I post in turn into a sermon. It's actually a very small percentage. It's just that my posts are so memorable, that it just SEEMS to be 100% to some people who like scalping, who hater being reminded of the wrongness of it, even though they have NOOO problem bring up scalping in the first place. It's called hypocrisy.
People who think that pro scalping posts are ok, and who don't think that anti scalping posts are ok, are hypocrites, ESPECIALLY on a forum in which scalping is discouraged.
https://sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31116
See rule 2:
"2) Scalping (buying items solely with the intention of immediately selling them to other collectors) is discouraged. "
