The Warning Vegan Gains IGNORED.
31 January 2019 [link youtube]
He was warned. Now his channel has been deleted. And why? Because he wouldn't apply "the golden rule": he was doing things that he'd disapprove of in others, indeed, he was doing things he'd perceive as dangerous and immoral in others… but he refused to apply the same rational standards to his own life that he made ostentatious use of in online "debates". Philosophy, ultimately, doesn't exist to fill up a chalk board: VG was a big fan of "Reason with a capital letter R" when he could use it to bully and intimidate others (in "discussions"), but wasn't willing to think rationally about what he was (so clearly) doing wrong. Hey, the video is only 4 minutes long: you really need a synopsis? #vegangains #vegan #veganism
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I just had to appear in court the stupid
thing with the police and them trying to ban me from owning any weapons that's still going on problem is I'm still waiting for the psychiatric assessment from the psychiatrist so I just had to explain to a judge that I have to wait on that assessment until they can kind of make a ruling on it I think it's really positive that in the 21st century people with serious mental health problems come on the internet and talk about them that didn't happen in any other century didn't happen just a few decades ago you didn't get the perspective of people who suffered things like hallucination and vegan gains I think is doing some really positive but coming the internet and talking but what it's like to be someone who suffers from hallucinations whatever his underlying medical condition maybe I don't know I assume I will never know maybe he will get a diagnosis I know he's an MRI scans done and that sort of thing that's certainly very positive no on the other hand I think even if you just asked Richard this Richard is speaking gains if you described his symptoms that he has and he said Richard somebody else who has this checklist of symptoms and problems do you think they should be stockpiling weapons do you think they should be carrying a knife when they go around town do you think they should between these things that you are doing by your count by your honor's description if somebody with this checklist of symptoms was seeing things on the internet such as you've been saying in terms of making threats against people and so on you know do you think that would be a problem now I think just one year ago I think he would have been kind of affable and self-effacing or to said yes he would have admitted it's a problem when people who are crazy or even people who diagnose themselves as crazy because again to give him credit he does diagnose himself as having some kind of serious mental disorder I think one year ago he would have said that yes it was a reasonable concern for someone with such serious mental health problems to be acting out in this way so it's a bad sign we can say that I think that just one year ago he would have been self-effacing enough to recognize yeah this is a problem he would see it as a problem others and therefore we be willing to see it as a problem in himself I think that today his political position has hardened I know he's made videos lately that are repeating talking points from the pro-gun lobby from the 1980s that weren't even believable or credible 1980s he's using tired old memes about oh well the Nazis would have never come to power if only there were more guns in the streets of Berlin and you know that's that's sad in many different ways it's sad partly because it just shows vegan gains and ask yourself have this in common I don't think either those guys have ever read a book I mean I don't think he's read one book on the history of what happened in Berlin when the Nazis rose to power I don't think we have one book that describes the gun violence that was on the streets from corner to corner from coffee shop to coffee shop from pub to pub in the years leading up to as ponds rise the Nazis and the role of gun ownership or guns being really available there it's it's a lie built on a lie built on a lie and it reflects a really kind of bad set of motivations on his part but those political beliefs which are his his beliefs directed outward I think in large part they reflect a self justification directed inward that he doesn't want to deal with anymore what I've just suggested that if he applied rationally his own standards to himself as he would apply them to another person in that situation another person with the same symptoms stockpiling arms acting out in the internet making threats in the earth way is I think a part of him feels a great sense of shame and guilt that he really does believe the police ought to intervene in those circumstances he believes the police ought to intervene against him and it's easier for him to subscribe to a kind of air SATs right-wing ideology which I know he didn't believe in just two years ago so I used to talk to the guy he used to describe himself as a socialist even it's not the hunka Co he used to describe himself as quite left-wing on a number of issues and generally but he's now putting together a bird's nest of bits and pieces of political ideology that are projected outward their claims about society their claims about the world but I think they're real psychological function is projecting inward it's a self justification in the strictest sense of the term
thing with the police and them trying to ban me from owning any weapons that's still going on problem is I'm still waiting for the psychiatric assessment from the psychiatrist so I just had to explain to a judge that I have to wait on that assessment until they can kind of make a ruling on it I think it's really positive that in the 21st century people with serious mental health problems come on the internet and talk about them that didn't happen in any other century didn't happen just a few decades ago you didn't get the perspective of people who suffered things like hallucination and vegan gains I think is doing some really positive but coming the internet and talking but what it's like to be someone who suffers from hallucinations whatever his underlying medical condition maybe I don't know I assume I will never know maybe he will get a diagnosis I know he's an MRI scans done and that sort of thing that's certainly very positive no on the other hand I think even if you just asked Richard this Richard is speaking gains if you described his symptoms that he has and he said Richard somebody else who has this checklist of symptoms and problems do you think they should be stockpiling weapons do you think they should be carrying a knife when they go around town do you think they should between these things that you are doing by your count by your honor's description if somebody with this checklist of symptoms was seeing things on the internet such as you've been saying in terms of making threats against people and so on you know do you think that would be a problem now I think just one year ago I think he would have been kind of affable and self-effacing or to said yes he would have admitted it's a problem when people who are crazy or even people who diagnose themselves as crazy because again to give him credit he does diagnose himself as having some kind of serious mental disorder I think one year ago he would have said that yes it was a reasonable concern for someone with such serious mental health problems to be acting out in this way so it's a bad sign we can say that I think that just one year ago he would have been self-effacing enough to recognize yeah this is a problem he would see it as a problem others and therefore we be willing to see it as a problem in himself I think that today his political position has hardened I know he's made videos lately that are repeating talking points from the pro-gun lobby from the 1980s that weren't even believable or credible 1980s he's using tired old memes about oh well the Nazis would have never come to power if only there were more guns in the streets of Berlin and you know that's that's sad in many different ways it's sad partly because it just shows vegan gains and ask yourself have this in common I don't think either those guys have ever read a book I mean I don't think he's read one book on the history of what happened in Berlin when the Nazis rose to power I don't think we have one book that describes the gun violence that was on the streets from corner to corner from coffee shop to coffee shop from pub to pub in the years leading up to as ponds rise the Nazis and the role of gun ownership or guns being really available there it's it's a lie built on a lie built on a lie and it reflects a really kind of bad set of motivations on his part but those political beliefs which are his his beliefs directed outward I think in large part they reflect a self justification directed inward that he doesn't want to deal with anymore what I've just suggested that if he applied rationally his own standards to himself as he would apply them to another person in that situation another person with the same symptoms stockpiling arms acting out in the internet making threats in the earth way is I think a part of him feels a great sense of shame and guilt that he really does believe the police ought to intervene in those circumstances he believes the police ought to intervene against him and it's easier for him to subscribe to a kind of air SATs right-wing ideology which I know he didn't believe in just two years ago so I used to talk to the guy he used to describe himself as a socialist even it's not the hunka Co he used to describe himself as quite left-wing on a number of issues and generally but he's now putting together a bird's nest of bits and pieces of political ideology that are projected outward their claims about society their claims about the world but I think they're real psychological function is projecting inward it's a self justification in the strictest sense of the term