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    Moral quandary

    Is it immoral to eat a pecan turtle blizzard while watching people going hungry on Alone season 7?
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    Not as bad as turning the thermostat up to 80....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thumbcocker View Post
    Is it immoral to eat a pecan turtle blizzard while watching people going hungry on Alone season 7?
    Nope. None of those folks wound up there accidentally. And if they're starving by a lake with Grizzly bears, they're not too very well prepared. And I say that as a terrible fisherman.

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    Heck No .... TV isn't real .
    When those cameras aren't rolling .... out comes buckets of fried chicken , mashed potatoes , corn on the cob and ice cream for desert .
    Enjoy yourself !
    P.S. Don't believe all you see on Swamp People either ... lot of staged and scripted happenings going on here . The Florida Snake hunting trips are the fun ones to watch ... I don't think Troy Landry likes snakes very much ... the term Ophidiophobia comes to mind . Someone made an Anaconda Jambalaya ... and he wouldn't eat any ... that's not normal for a coonass to refuse Jambalaya !
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    Nah, have a steak, a real exotic mixed drink, and big bowl of ice cream.

    If those folks get too hungry, the camera crew will slip 'em a sandwich or something.

    I yell at the TV sometimes when those shows are on:
    "Come to the city you idiots!! That's where the food is".
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    Nope!

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    Nope..I would eat one right in front of them..

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    I agree with everyone else here, eat and enjoy right in front of them LOL!
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    Reminds me of campus life in the 80s at UT Austin. Some Iranian students, staging a hunger strike, would hang out in the west mall, carrying signs protesting whatever. Frat boys would get a tray of food from the cafeteria and sit down next to the protestors for a chat while they had lunch.
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    Nope, they chose to put themselves in that situation. Now if you were watching starving children in Ethiopia and you did not reach for your wallet in the same situation. That might be.
    I truly believe we need to get back to basics.

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    The more useful question is it still moral to own and watch a TV?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Catshooter View Post
    The more useful question is it still moral to own and watch a TV?


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    I don't see any issues with watching or owning a TV. I due see lots of issues if you believe most of that junk is real.
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    My Wife watches the tube..I maybe watch a Hour before bed, but never on a TV..

    I watch old Westerns, Old TV shows on the Internet a little..All the Wife has for TV is a old antenna on the roof, She gets about 35 Channels of wasteland..But it is Free...I do not pay, nor ever will pay for cable or Satellite..What a scam..

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    I just checked ...nowhere in my Bible does it say :

    Thou shalt not sit in your underwear , watch TV and eat a blizzard ... You Good !

    I threw in the sitting in your underwear part because that's how I eat ice cream and watch TV and I wanted to make sure it was OK with the Lord ... It's okay.
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    Hey they got a free camping trip and flaunting it on tv in front of you, so why not?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Catshooter View Post
    The more useful question is it still moral to own and watch a TV?


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    Bear Grylles was the funny one, saw out-takes of Holiday Inns in the background, him eating crackers and such when he was allegedly in desperate need of food. Reality shows? Junk. Camera and support crews? Big unions. Strict rules/contract on hours and conditions. Why I don't watch any of that junk.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gwpercle View Post
    I just checked ...nowhere in my Bible does it say :

    Thou shalt not sit in your underwear , watch TV and eat a blizzard ... You Good !

    I threw in the sitting in your underwear part because that's how I eat ice cream and watch TV and I wanted to make sure it was OK with the Lord ... It's okay.
    Gary
    Made me laugh. I once asked a guy at church what he was going to do over a holiday weekend. He said "I'm not going to do anything but sit around in my underwear, watch TV and dig my nose." I suppose throwing a bowl of ice cream in would be a fine addition.

    To the OP, eat your blizzard with no regrets.

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    What idiot came up with the term “reality show”? Nothing about any of them is real.
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