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Read the article. The sensitive people go around demanding everyone acquiesce to their unfounded demands. The article does everything but come out and say they'

Read the article. The sensitive people go around demanding everyone acquiesce to their unfounded demands. The article does everything but come out and say they're obnoxious, annoying neighbours. I don't think anyone is stopping people from going out and living by themselves, just that no one else should have to put up with them. If these folks just stayed at home, turned off their WiFi, no one would care. The fact that they need special treatment from everyone else is why this is even a subject. Edit: In addition, giving into stupid beliefs does the world harm. It promotes further poor thinking and suboptimal choices that hurt other people. (Or even, innocent children, if you want to play that card.) That's why, in as far as we have any responsibility to society, we should fight irrationality.

XorNot 11y ago
They've managed to develop a condition which mysteriously ensures they should always be the centre of attention in the modern age while pleading to be victims of everybody else. If we left them all alone somewhere, then somehow I'd be unsurprised if they kept turning up complaining that some distant thing was also infringing on them.
grecy 11y ago
> Edit: In addition, giving into stupid beliefs does the world harm. It promotes further poor thinking and suboptimal choices that hurt other people. (Or even, innocent children, if you want to play that card.) That's why, in as far as we have any responsibility to society, we should fight irrationality. I agree with you on that point, though of course you walk a fine line - I understand it hasn't been proven yet, but remember in the 90's you would have been called a crackpot for saying the government was listening to your phone calls, etc.
- Noctem 11y ago
  The existence of government surveillance can't be disproven by a scientist in a lab with some test subjects. EHS has repeatedly been found to be the result of the nocebo effect. Attempting to discourage views that have been repeatedly invalidated by science is clearly more reasonable than shunning every untestable (or difficult to test) but plausible supposition.

XorNot 11y ago

They've managed to develop a condition which mysteriously ensures they should always be the centre of attention in the modern age while pleading to be victims of everybody else. If we left them all alone somewhere, then somehow I'd be unsurprised if they kept turning up complaining that some distant thing was also infringing on them.

grecy 11y ago

> Edit: In addition, giving into stupid beliefs does the world harm. It promotes further poor thinking and suboptimal choices that hurt other people. (Or even, innocent children, if you want to play that card.) That's why, in as far as we have any responsibility to society, we should fight irrationality. I agree with you on that point, though of course you walk a fine line - I understand it hasn't been proven yet, but remember in the 90's you would have been called a crackpot for saying the government was listening to your phone calls, etc.

Noctem 11y ago
The existence of government surveillance can't be disproven by a scientist in a lab with some test subjects. EHS has repeatedly been found to be the result of the nocebo effect. Attempting to discourage views that have been repeatedly invalidated by science is clearly more reasonable than shunning every untestable (or difficult to test) but plausible supposition.