I looked in that book " the devils dictionary for the word it didn't come up.
So I tried my making my own defifinition time is thin so I'm just gonna paste it

Confess

Not putting enough thought before an action. Or rather putting to much thought after one? Or rather the need to gain favour with someone by display of repentance?
Anyway gonna leave as is cause a disputable definition is a fun one.

I've lied, cheated, stolen, and killed, but not in that order, and not in the same day.

Also, I've littered.

Excellent. After many years of not tossing very much out of my car or while hiking etc, I now throw just about everything on the ground. Consolidating trash into a central location is just silly. I prefer a general wholesome thin layer of trash to the industrialized means of centralization which wastes a tremendous amount of time and money and uses massive amounts of pollution emitting equipment. The world is your trash bin. Use it wisely.

Plus , littering is fun. Especially throwing beer bottles at road signs.

People who drop litter should be shot.

It keeps litter picker-uppers in a job.

Major confession: I liked the movie "Gravity" a little bit. I teared up twice.

Broken window fallacy

[care about people who own windows fallacy]

It is us window owners giving a little bit to the window fixers.

I pissed on the toilet seat today. Didn't think it was a net addition. Kept the maid in a job though.

No, no and no. First, it is not litter until it actually lands on the ground. It is trash or garbage (to the person doing the tossing) in the hand, or the back of the truck, that is then disposed of in a random fashion by allowing gravity to have its way. Definitions are important; this is a philosophy forum.

Shooting people is all well and good. Load up and have at it I say.

If you want to piss on your own toilet seat and pay someone to clean it up, that's well and good. But when you litter, then you're forcing me and everyone else who doesn't litter to pay to clean it up. If you want to say the reason you litter is because you're lazy, or you're too stupid to know any better, then fine. But if you say you're doing it to support the litter pickers, then what you're doing is morally equivalent to theft, and you should be horsewhipped in the public square. The union of litter pickers could pay you and your ilk to litter a lot more so they earn even more revenues. If you all litter enough, I could be paying half my salary just to pick up your litter. That's about what I pay now for your litter and a host of other services that others use and I don't. That's money that I could be investing elsewhere in the economy which might create better jobs for people than picking up litter, and the prisoners in the orange jump suits could be fixing the potholes in our roads instead of picking up your trash. So don't say that you're littering because you care about the litter pickers unless you care only about the litter pickers and not anyone else.

Years ago the father of my best friend did a deed that needs confessing. He was an older retired man of German heritage that had a beautiful yard and hundreds of irises and other flowers that he cared for religiously. The neighborhood cats would use the flower beds for their litter box. He was in a constant state of war with all the cats. He used a BB gun (rifle).

So one day he was lying on his couch, facing outside, with the door open, this was a room converted from a garage to a TV/ pool room so the open door faced out into a cul-de-sac that formed the road terminus to his suburban paradise. A cat was sitting in the cul-de-sac patiently going about its grooming activities. The old guy didn’t flinch, he had his BB rifle on top of the back of the couch and he leisurely grabbed the BB rifle. He then, still lying prone, place the rifle barrel of the gun on his outstretched foot, as a steadying perch, took excellent aim and fired. The cat jumped up like on a coil spring and retreated some distant into a neighbors’ yard at just under 70 mph. I and his son (my best friend) were engaged in a game of pool at the time and we laughed long and hard, and my respect for the old man and his lackadaisical shooting technique took a giant leap forward.

Such admirable action, as shown by that old retired German gentlemen, deserve recognition and praise. Such is the reason for this thread.

When you've done that, pick up the litter, but leave the body where it fell as a warning to others.

That just means he was damn dumb. Cats are nothing but good for the flower bed. They bury their stuff which makes excellent fertilizer. People pay good money for cat pee to put on their gardens. They don't trample plants, they walk gingerly in between them. It really takes a big man to hurt an innocent little kitty who isn't hurting anyone. If I saw him do that, forget the bb gun. I'd get my air rifle from the 60's that shoots .22 caliber pellets at over 720 feet/sec, and I'd bean that old man's ass every chance I got. See how he likes it.

It's not like dogs that leave their poop everywhere and try to take your hand off if you don't give them a wide berth. They should be shot from long range with a sniper rifle whether they're on their own property or not. Owning them as a pet is as ridiculous as owning a wolf or a lion.

Of course.

I was once subject to an insta-fine for dropping a cigarette butt on the tracks at a German railway station. Clearly not littering, but it's their country. The kid who politely issued it was obviously on some or other ridiculous scheme to reduce youth unemployment figures. However, he also immediately and equally politely recognized the validity of my common law defence that I was just some dumbass tourist who was unfamiliar with the rules. That's what the world needs more of: people you can reason with.

What are you calling it when it dances in the wind?


I don't litter btw. So no I have confessed.

While I'll agree with the sentiment, this just creates more litter. A fine should be sufficient. Also there are many orphaned roads and parks up for adoption.

They should be "shot" with the litter they created in small velocity to not cause bodily harm but maximize disgust factor (so imagine the public u#$%$n punishment lol - exceptions are provided if the person littering can offer evidence that they had no reasonable alternative option). Also it will be a public "exhibition" kind of penalty that people are free to watch for a small fee of $1 during which as part of the ceremony the person that littered will before the punishment read a short paper about the impact of their littering followed by a brief documentary in a big screen involving general environmental quality/preservation/pollution decrease efforts type of topics.

Alternatively the person that littered can escape punishment and public insult if they agree to spend 2 hours in a particular cleaning up the mess crew of people that either have this as job or are those that were fined (cleaning streets, highways, rivers, beaches etc).

Another option is to cook and serve for homeless people for 6 hours and no other penalty and they are also allowed to eat with them without any cost after they are finished their job.

Of course you know in what kind of society this would happen.

The kind of society that even crime leads to better people and long term outcomes eventually!

I was joking. Sheesh. Lighten up.

Robin Hood. I like the litter picker uppers and the maids more. It would be strange if I behaved differently.

When I liked in a place where there were no such people to do the work I did my own recycling. I also don't actively recycle anymore so that those less fortunate can make a few bucks digging my bottles and cans out of the dumpster.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...rains-science/

Confession: sometimes, I don't understand Zeno's post.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxopla...dy_syndrome.22

Next you're going to try to convince me that vaccines don't cause autism.

I wouldn't recommend eating cat feces, but if you do get schizophrenia, petting a cat is very good for that. It's actually good for everyone. It lowers blood pressure and helps people live longer happier lives. Prisons that give inmates a cat have shown a significant reduction in violence.

I'm convinced. I'll just add some pesticide to the organic food I've been purchasing and everything should be good.