WTF is "cold iron", and why's it so special?

[TarionzCousin]

I love cold iron, I keep my swords in the freezer just in case.

Do you have short swords or a long freezer?

 

[CapnZapp]

Okay. I have a few questions.

Are you confident that you have a fair reading of "the whole argument" within its twenty-months-dead conversational context?

Do you actually disagree with it?

Are you going anywhere else with this?

And is it important enough for you to keep @ing me about so long after the fact?

(N.b.: All these questions are rhetorical.)

I note the irony in you complaining about being quoted... in a post where you yourself quote...

End of note

 

[Ovinomancer]

I note the irony in you complaining about being quoted... in a post where you yourself quote...

End of note

That would be ironic, if it was actually the complaint made.

 

[CapnZapp]

That would be ironic, if it was actually the complaint made.

My interpretation of writing "And is it important enough for you to keep @ing me about so long after the fact?" is that you are complaining.

shrug

 

[jasper]

Do you have short swords or a long freezer?

Walk in so I can hang the bodies.

 

[gator001]

Was very obviously answered by my question. Person 1:"Hey Mike! You wanna go to Vegas with us?" Mike:"Did Mike Tyson hit like a ton of bricks?"



Humans are naturally occurring. Nature provided them, unless you are arguing creationism.



Dunno. I didn't say that. What I said is that some acts are natural and some, probably most, are not.

List them.

 

[gator001]

Stop feeding the troll.

It's a philosophical troll, but a troll nevertheless.

If he can't see that D&D cold iron is a pop-culture appropriation of an ancient mythical concept, he's either arguing in bad faith or genuinely new to role-playing.

Given his eloquent argumentation, I'm inclined to guess the former - hence the troll label. (It is at this stage a good-natured conversationalist removes his fake troll costume and says "You got me; yep, I was only trying to trigger y'all with philosophy. Ha ha. No harm, no foul."

If it is the latter, my apologies. Then my answer becomes: "Because. Next question?"

"It is at this stage anyone who disagrees with me says they weren't being honest, because that's easier for me than actually trying to refute any arguments presented."

 

[Maxperson]

List them.

List what?

 

[monsmord]

Troll-like typing detected.

 

[gator001]

I'm going to have to have a serious conversation with my mother about storks.

Seriously, though, reproduction is a natural act. It's not as if we have to go smelt a bunch of metal to forge us some babies.



It takes more than an act to make something unnatural, though. See my comment on the difference between an ant hill and a beehive. Yes reproduction and cars both require human acts, but one is an act of nature and the other involves unnatural acts.

Which acts are unnatural, and why?