User talk:Cuprohastes/Cupro's Maxim

While perhaps witty and amusing, I'm not sure I would consider this worthy of a separate entry, if only because this is not a "famous" saying and is unlikely to be the object of a search. Maybe this would be better located under Cuprohastes? --Duncan da Husky 14:31, 21 Aug 2005 (UTC)


 * Moved to subarticle of user page and added template. -- 17:53, 21 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Like a lot of generalizations about furries, I find myself doubting that it actually has anything to do with furry at all. "All people are broken, to a greater or lesser extent" rings just as true. -- 13:54, 29 Aug 2005 (UTC)


 * I have given thought to this topic, and I find that the statement "All Furs are broken, to a greater or lesser extent" is somewhat true. I personally would modify the statement to "The furry fandom attracts broken individuals" for two reasons:
 * to emphasize the proper causality (the fandom does not do the breaking), and
 * that some furs are so minimally broken as to be practically functional.
 * I say this after years of casual observation of the fandom; and despite neither knowing nor having met anyone in person, I have personal experience with being broken. ;) ---bersl2


 * The trouble with that is that it implies that there is a "non-broken", ideal state. I would take the view that I am not broken, just different, as everyone else is in one way or another. In particular, I do not want to be "fixed". People tried that for homosexuals, with the best of intentions, but looking back it doesn't seem like that was such a good idea. :-) -- 07:26, 14 Oct 2005 (UTC)


 * Um, yeah... the idea basically being bandied about there is that so-called "non-broken" people are the ones with "wonderful, fufilling lives", and the entire business sounds like a terribly arbitrary value judgement on just what a wonderful, fufilling life is. And what 'escapism' is. What if involving role-playing is part of a wonderful, fufilling life? Who defines what a wonderful life is? Or is not? Generally, observations like these always end up making a sweeping value judgement that cannot really be supported rationally when one takes them apart, and betray some kind of cultural bias.


 * For example, some psychological perspecitves posit that "escapism" is perfectly normal and a release valve for ordinary stress. Everybody "escapes" to some degree, in some time frame - it's impossible NOT to. Who then, is broken or not broken because they feel the need for some "escapism"? Eh? --


 * I understand that the criteria for a wonderful life have been clearly defined for over half a century now. ;-) -- 05:34, 15 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Can broken people determine if other people are broken? ;-) -- Anonymous


 * good point... --Cuprohastes


 * You know what they say - takes one to know one . . . --GreenReaper(talk) 01:10, 12 September 2006 (UTC)