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This reminds me of a clip of Louis CK talking about losing the ability to just sit with your own thoughts and be really sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbYScltf1c&t=53s

Shame he turned out to be a sexual deviant because he said some interesting things.

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I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss his entire act because of what he did. Watch his latest special to see his perspective. He’s not exactly Bill Cosby.

Bill Cosby is rather low bar.

"One bad thought ruins entirety of humans other thoughts, they are now null and void. News at eleven!"

What’s that quote from?

GP is making a statement in jest

Poor use of sarcasm (as most sarcasm is).

How come? I'd argue that he made a decent point - one bad action of an individual doesn't invalidate everything else they've done. Using sarcasm can turn a bland, potentially combative statement like that into a joke.

Tho, he did nor had one bad thought.

Issue is, he had multiple bad actions that actually harmed people. And he had worldview that rationalized those actions as something ok to do.

Two sides of a coin. "Deviant" and "interesting" are the same kinds behaviors but with different value judgements.

I don’t think “deviant” is the right word to describe CK’s abhorrent behavior at all. Being different isn’t a bad thing. Rex Ryan is a “deviant”. Sure, some people may judge him but there’s nothing inherently harmful or unethical about what he chooses to do for sexual gratification. CK might be a deviant in that others don’t find gratification the way he apparently does but his deviance isn’t the issue. This issue is that he’s sexually exploitative of others.

I’m unsure if you’re saying I shouldn’t be criticising him or should be more critical?

If he’d just been doing something sexually odd on his own I have no issue with almost anything that might be - but what he was doing abused his power and hurt other people.

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