Old Tunes and BOC Maxima cassettes for sale on ebay

[apriorion]

To be honest, her excuse for selling the tapes sounds flimsy to me

since when did you need justification to sell your own property?

A justification is not the same thing as an excuse. A justification justifies, but an excuse, while failing to justify a given action, is designed to provide some insight into the events, intentions, and other relevant factors that may or may not help alleviate culpability on the part of the agent.

[seanandcandy]

To be honest, her excuse for selling the tapes sounds flimsy to me

since when did you need justification to sell your own property?

A justification is not the same thing as an excuse. A justification justifies, but an excuse, while failing to justify a given action, is designed to provide some insight into the events, intentions, and other relevant factors that may or may not help alleviate culpability on the part of the agent.

let me rephrase since you seem to have gone off on a tangent:

she doesn't needto come up with an excuse to sell her own property.

[apriorion]

since when did you need justification to sell your own property?

A justification is not the same thing as an excuse. A justification justifies, but an excuse, while failing to justify a given action, is designed to provide some insight into the events, intentions, and other relevant factors that may or may not help alleviate culpability on the part of the agent.

let me rephrase since you seem to have gone off on a tangent:

she doesn't needto come up with an excuse to sell her own property.

(edt: uncalled for reaction on my part; but your question rested on a mistake)

[seanandcandy]

A justification is not the same thing as an excuse. A justification justifies, but an excuse, while failing to justify a given action, is designed to provide some insight into the events, intentions, and other relevant factors that may or may not help alleviate culpability on the part of the agent.

let me rephrase since you seem to have gone off on a tangent:

she doesn't needto come up with an excuse to sell her own property.

You asked me a question, and I gave you an answer. There was no tangent, asshole. Go fuck yourself.

are you familiar with rhetoric?

[jcotteri]

Everyone relax and breatheeeeeeeeeeeee deeeeeeeeeeeep..


Ahhhhh..





It's just some cassettes for sale on eBay, no need for nastiness, though justification for pleasant discussion.

[seanandcandy]

(edt: uncalled for reaction on my part; but your question rested on a mistake)

what on earth are you on about, you don't need to justify OR come up with excuses to sell your own shit
what part of that aren't you getting
where exactly am i mistaken in any of that?

[rainier]

::smudges thread with sage::

[thinkdontpray]

jesus christ guys

chill out

[Goiter Sanchez]

Happy birthday Mike.

[apriorion]

(edt: uncalled for reaction on my part; but your question rested on a mistake)

what on earth are you on about, you don't need to justify OR come up with excuses to sell your own shit
what part of that aren't you getting
where exactly am i mistaken in any of that?

You make a bold claim. If I understand your claim correctly, you state: for any x, where x is an object that is your property, it is not the case (ever) that you have to give an excuse if you decide to sell x. All it takes to falsify this claim is to provide one counterexample where it is the case that you seem morally obliged to provide an excuse for such an x. That is, I claim: there is some y such that y is owned by a person but he is obligated to give an excuse if he decides to sell y. Here's an intuitive illustration of the sort of case I have in mind: your dying grandfather gives you an important family heirloom, which he makes you promise (at his deathbed) to pass on to your offspring. You fall on hard times, and you have to sell it to buy food. Your mother finds out that you sold your grandfather's heirloom, and she knows about your deathbed promise. She wants to know why. In other words, she wants an excuse to mitigate your culpability, at least.

What do you think, does that case satisfy my existentially quantified statement above? If so, your claim is false. Sometimes, you have to give at least some excuse for selling your own property.

[seanandcandy]

Sometimes, you have to give at least some excuse for selling your own property.

what exactly makes you think you or anyone has the right to know why she's selling it? apart from the fact she's already told us why, what makes you think that anyone who wishes to part with their own belonging has to tell us their life story and admonish their HORRIBLE HORRIBLE guilt over selling an item that is rightfully theirs, heirloom or garbage. your moral ground on this is so fractured, it's painful to know people like you exist.

[Spaced]

jesus christ guys

chill out

ah, its natural for things to get a bit tense. it's been a long eventful ride to June 10 and this old tunes ebay business has sent a few over the edge.

sometimes i think BoC-world would be better off without the early catalog lore.

[apriorion]

Sometimes, you have to give at least some excuse for selling your own property.

what exactly makes you think you or anyone has the right to know why she's selling it? apart from the fact she's already told us why, what makes you think that anyone who wishes to part with their own belonging has to tell us their life story and admonish their HORRIBLE HORRIBLE guilt over selling an item that is rightfully theirs, heirloom or garbage. your moral ground on this is so fractured, it's painful to know people like you exist.

You didn't address my argument. Anyway, you don't know me, and you don't know my "moral ground". I was only interested in the logic (if any) behind your claim, hence my thought experiment. Try not to draw any conclusions about me personally on this basis, as I really don't have strong feelings about this woman's sale of her property. Rather, I have my doubts about her reasons for it, and about the timing involved.

[seanandcandy]

I have my doubts about her reasons for it, and about the timing involved.

she's selling it now because the market is up. she knows it will sell for more during this time period. she needs the money.

welcome to capitalism.

if you have a problem with that, move to China or something.

[apriorion]

I have my doubts about her reasons for it, and about the timing involved.

she's selling it now because the market is up. she knows it will sell for more during this time period. she needs the money.

welcome to capitalism.

if you have a problem with that, move to China or something.

I might, actually, but that's another story. But thanks for the advice.

[thinkdontpray]

im more interested in the fact that the seller has other unreleased BoC

i would kill to hear hooper bay

KILL

[re-phaelam-ed]

Sometimes, you have to give at least some excuse for selling your own property.

what exactly makes you think you or anyone has the right to know why she's selling it? apart from the fact she's already told us why, what makes you think that anyone who wishes to part with their own belonging has to tell us their life story and admonish their HORRIBLE HORRIBLE guilt over selling an item that is rightfully theirs, heirloom or garbage. your moral ground on this is so fractured, it's painful to know people like you exist.

does it matter.....it will be at my place soon enough and it will all be over.
it okay guys....its okay.

[jcotteri]

^he he he he he

[Retrodreaming]

I'm the highest bidder! ......oh wait no I'm not lol

[mono]

I have my doubts about her reasons for it, and about the timing involved.

she's selling it now because the market is up. she knows it will sell for more during this time period. she needs the money.

welcome to capitalism.

if you have a problem with that, move to China or something.

your understanding of capitalism is that of a 6 year old - in fact the market being up or down or the ability to trade doesn't have much to do with capitalism at all and would happen even if we had banter rather than money, let alone capital - it's not as if a tape was on the city of london, and it's even debatable in which circumstances you can call it "property" at all

but as for me i have no issue with the fact that she is selling them, i just think that whoever bids on this is an idiot and that there is something else at work than simply trade when you deal with collectors

also, that something is the way it is doesn't mean that you have to like it or that by saying that it should be otherwise you don't understand how it is

i guess this is not the place to actually discuss capitalism (which is sad because if you say some superficial shit then it's ok and you look very clever and realistic but if you try to actually discuss then you're a loony and also a pedantic loony)