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		mirimir on June 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement Poe's law: "[W]ithout a clear indicator of the author's intent, parodies of extremism are indistinguishable from sincere expressions of extremism."[0] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

priv_acy on June 9, 2015 [–]

I believe we were studying Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" at the time. Now that I think about it, it was probably more like 10th grade.

But it was an informative exercise, as I've since found that many good ideas also fall into this category along with all the nutty ones.

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