loddite: hmm
loddite: I've pissed you off, haven't I?
Zerovirus: not really, i just don't really feel like talking to you anymore
Zerovirus: a conversation with you is like a treadmill
Zerovirus: you exert energy but don't get anywhere
loddite: zero
loddite: that is my entire life.
Zerovirus: congratulations i suppose
Zerovirus: you have achieved self-actualization
Zerovirus: the persona you project and the life you've led are one and the same
Zerovirus: you are truly the most honest of us all
loddite: no wonder I am the ugliest!
Zerovirus: oh look
Zerovirus: i just spent about 40 minutes talking to you
Zerovirus: time which i had PLANNED on spending on drawing something
loddite: s/spent/wasted/
loddite: why don't you just block me and save time
Zerovirus: because that would create net negative utility on both of our parts
Zerovirus: you would probably not be pleased by that
Zerovirus: i am trying to accomodate your desires and requests
loddite: why do you care what I am pleased by
Zerovirus: because you're another person, duh
Zerovirus: general empathy and shit
loddite: lol
loddite: if I were you I would just block me, not doing so gives me the impression that you would like to have some sort of working relationship with me which I know you do not
Zerovirus: if you were me, you wouldn't block yourself because you'd actually enjoy talking to your counterpart
Zerovirus: the two yous would have a whole irony-off
Zerovirus: or whatever it is you do with your friends over IRC
loddite: if I met myself I would kill him.
loddite: so I don't think that would work exctly
Zerovirus: i don't think i'm going to block you in any case
Zerovirus: it's pretty obvious that you're not intentionally trying to antagonize me out of everyone you know
loddite: suit yourself
Zerovirus: that is, i guess this is normal for you
Zerovirus: and hey who knows maybe one day you'll convince me
Zerovirus: though that's also the justification i use for listening to evangelists even though they've never come close to persuading me to join anything
loddite: what will I convince you of exactly
Zerovirus: i don't know but i'm sure you'll convince me of something one day
Zerovirus: most every one of our conversations include a debate over soemthing
loddite: I'll convince you of the futility of empathy
Zerovirus: how delightfully recursive?
loddite: yes that's how I roll
Zerovirus: well the issue with persuading me that empathy is futile is that i do not expect any compensation for empathy
loddite: as it stands now you are some kind of empathy glutton
Zerovirus: trust me, i am not deriving enjoyment from trying to understand others
loddite: excreting empathy and rolling around in it when plenty of other, more deserving people are doing fine producing their own empathy
Zerovirus: your metaphor for empathy suddenly confuses me
Zerovirus: it's not a metaphor i can understand
Zerovirus: in particular the meaningful difference between 'excreting' and 'producing'
Zerovirus: are you implying that my style of empathy is more 'filthy' or something
Zerovirus: or are you saing that i am making a lot of it or what
Zerovirus: i am confused here
loddite: you should not be capable of being empathetic on the level you are trying to come off as
Zerovirus: well no i am not capable of that, but it doesn't hurt to try does it?
loddite: you should not try either
Zerovirus: oh so there's two theses you're making
Zerovirus: one that i am not as nice as i look
Zerovirus: and the other that i should not try to be nice
loddite: no
loddite: more like
loddite: you don't deserve to be as nice as you are trying to come off as
loddite: how nice you actually are is irrlevant
Zerovirus: that is the most confusing statement i've heard
Zerovirus: out of all the assertions you've made today
Zerovirus: or tonight i guess?
loddite: you shouldn't have empathy because that is like the rich being empathetic to the poor
loddite: you are happy and I'm not
loddite: and I spend so much time trying to help other people that need it
loddite: just to feel some kind of self-worth
loddite: meanwhile you have plenty of it
loddite: and yet you still dare to feel empathy towards me
loddite: like you have any idea
loddite: that was my point good sir
Zerovirus: hrm
Zerovirus: that is the strangest argument i've heard and in truth i do not have a cogent rebuttal mostly because i don't understand you as well as i need to in order to manifest a response
loddite: heh okay
Zerovirus: so basically me trying to be nice pisses you off?
loddite: yes
Zerovirus: well i guess there's nothign i can do about that except try to talk to you less i suppose
Zerovirus: i'm certainly not going to stop trying
loddite: you were already doing that
loddite: i suggest blocking
Zerovirus: i already do that though on my part
Zerovirus: i do not need to enact a barrier to prevent myself from talking to you
Zerovirus: every time we have a conversation it is you who precipitates it
Zerovirus: and i am going to keep that opportunity there
loddite: okay
Zerovirus: if you really think it is a good idea for us not to talk through a block
Zerovirus: you can implement it yourself
Zerovirus: perhaps in that it will be your sign of kindness towards me?