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This comment is the kind of heartless, dispassionate thought that makes people hate "tech people". The response to someone being forced out of a home they've l
by ahoy 11y ago
This comment is the kind of heartless, dispassionate thought that makes people hate "tech people".
The response to someone being forced out of a home they've lived in for their whole life needs to be something more compassionate than "tough shit, you greedy poor".
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- yummyfajitas 11y agoYou are right that tech people are easy to hate on because we often think differently. Unlike the rest of us, you've signaled mainstream virtue with your comment. Congrats! Is there a point beyond that? Note that I didn't advocate any specific policy, I just pointed out that a specific argument was internally contradictory, which you don't seem to disagree with.
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoSignaling an autistic disregard for morality and compassion as everyone else knows them doesn't exactly do your ideology any favors.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoI'm not disregarding morality - again, I made purely positive (not normative) claims. If you want to discuss morality then state your principles and we reason from them. I'm just calling out ahoy for writing a post that's little but virtue signalling and nerd shaming.
- danans 11y agoYou are free to have your own thought process, but please don't project it onto everyone in tech. You don't speak for us all.
- dang 11y ago> Unlike the rest of us, you've signaled mainstream virtue with your comment. You're taking this thread into personal attack, plus slinging a lot of sarcasm around, which has the effect that trolling does. Please stop doing these things.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoI don't understand. I agreed with what ahoy said. She said I was out of the mainstream and people might hate me and people like me due to my comment. I said she was right, that she was also in the mainstream and that people might like her due to her comment. It's a personal attack to say someone is right and that people might like them? (I'm assuming since you've singled me out for reply that you have little problem with ahoy's comment.)
- dang 11y agoThat's not at all what you said. Please don't be evasive. > I'm assuming since you've singled me out for reply that you have little problem with ahoy's comment Quite the opposite, and I'm surprised you'd fall for that non sequitur. The comment was bad by HN's standards. It added noise and indignation much more than it added information. I replied to you, though, because you've posted more in this thread and because the pattern I described is problematic.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoI'm honestly not being evasive. I honestly agree with ahoy that "heartless, dispassionate thought" is likel to cause a lot of people to dislike me and other tech people. (I also think it's more likely to be correct.) You've clearly been following my posts, is this an implausible belief for me to hold? If I incorrectly interpreted a comment replying to me as as singling me out, I offer my apologies. Perhaps I'm being oversensitive. I was attempting to make a measured response to what I considered a less than pleasant comment.