Inherently false...  Who the fuck are you?

IBTNP knows who that person is.

IBTNP didn't realize or notice that.

True.

@Demo:  Brew pubs, crazy people and mountains....  what's not to like?

Almost, but not quite all of it yet.

IBTNP has an engineering degree of some kind.


@ Demo:  I was living over by Airport and Murray, but now I'm up by Academy and Austin Bluffs.  Convenient, given that I've recently become a full-time mech e. student at UCCS.

I just got someone at work to google 'goatse'. I didn't think anyone was out there that would actually fall for it. It was totally awesome.

Goatse is old enough that most people don't remember it anymore.

true, but charmingly so.

IBTNP couldn't have accurately guessed that I would make this statement.

I'm trying to estimate the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.

African or european?

-or-

If she's doing it right, you shouldn't care.

By the same token, your own example is a daily occurance, someone does something stupid and almost immediately regrets it, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and wants to blame something or someone for it, be it eating a piece of cheesecake or mutilating one's own body.  These are both cases of simple cause and effect.  Yes, you did shoot yourself.  No, aside from the potential of mis-utilization of emergency services, no crime was committed, the gun was in your own hand the whole time.  Conversely, in the case of the self-raping man, the rapist and the victim are different iterations of the same individual, simply separated by the passage of time.  They are not, in a physical sense, the same object in 3-dimensional space.  It is, clearly, a case of one individual imposing their will and action against an unwilling or incapacitated individual, but these individuals are, for all legal definitions, the time-travelling self-rapist.

If you blugeon yourself with a tack hammer, it is self mutilation.  If you were to be struck with a tack hammer by a time travelling future self, who walks into the room, strikes you with the tack hammer, despite your present self's objection, and walks away, returning to his own time, and leaving the tack hammer where it can be easily examined and clearly determined that it was, indeed, your hand holding and swinging the hammer, but the injuries indicate a third party executing the action, is it assault, and who can be arrested for it?

So, here's an interesting, if disturbing, time-travel paradox to fuck with your brains a little bit:

A man discovers time travel.  While this, in the wonderful land of Hypotheticalsituationalia is not entirely uncommon, he chooses to use it to test what could be considered a legal paradox, and decides to go back in time to rape himself.

That's right...  He rapes himself.  Stop looking at me like that, hypothetical people can get seriously fucked up at times.

Anyhow, the man goes back in time, forces himself on his earlier self, and goes back to his own time.  Here's where the interesting question comes in:  Was this a convict-able rape, or just a really disturbing masturbatory act?  On one hand, he did force himself on himself against his previous self's will.  On the other hand, given that the 2 individuals are, barring a bit of temporal displacement, the same person, it could be viewed as the equivalent to a really disturbing rub-and-tug involving a severely conflicted individual, who was, indeed, a willing participant in his own "rape," thus nullifying the claim.

So...  Is it rape, or not, and if it is rape, what should the punishment for it be?

Just a bit of a brain bender to get your brain working and trying to find the bleach to deal with the images generated....

True.


IBTNP has had their hopes for the global economy and STEM industries re-energized by Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson in the past 2 years.

May the 4th be with you all.

Song: Take Over The World
Artist: Your favourite Martian

Methinks I vaguely remember you, as well....  Glad to see I'm not the only one who goes on obscenely long hiatuses...