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Maybe you work in an American office with me, a mentally unstable individual. You were the first person to get sick in the office, everyone knows it. Now I'm si
by MisterTea 7y ago
Maybe you work in an American office with me, a mentally unstable individual. You were the first person to get sick in the office, everyone knows it. Now I'm sick and my family is sick. Maybe I take a severe financial hit or someone is my family gets really sick, perhaps even dies. Now I'm VERY upset with you. Maybe I follow you to your car after work... maybe I follow you home. Maybe to the store. Either way, there's a gun in my waistband and I stopped giving a fuck. You sure you want me knowing you were patient zero?
- matz1 7y agoAre you saying you want to murder people ? Do you like death sentence or life behind jail for the rest of your life ?
- Operyl 7y agoHe’s providing a scenario to the parent question “why does it need to be anonymous.” It’s very plausible.
- matz1 7y agoI understand that and I'm just providing a scenario for the implication. Thats why we have severe punishment for murder, otherwise murder will happen a lot more.
- zimpenfish 7y ago> Thats why we have severe punishment for murder Not a great comfort to the murdered person or their family, I'd venture.
- matz1 7y agothe severe punishment to prevent the murder to happen in the first place.
- zimpenfish 7y agoGiven the numbers, it would appear that deterrent generally doesn't stop people who are inclined to murder, though.
- matz1 7y agoyes it would, if there is no deterrent, the number would go up way more.
- davidmurdoch 7y agoI think they were speaking hypothetically?
- matz1 7y agoI understand its hypothetical. I'm just following the logical implication of the hypothetical situation.
- williamdclt 7y agoWhat is your point then? That people won't go after "patient 0" because there's legal repercussions? I think we all know that's naive
- matz1 7y agoYes, I too, like everyone else, have a trait that a many people would hate and if murder is legal, I would be dead already but I'm not so worry about it because fortunately murder is illegal and carry severe punishment. I understand its not perfect but at least significantly lower my concern.
- lozenge 7y agoYes, people do fear situations like that, regardless of their actual prevalence. And that fear could prevent them from installing such an app.
- matz1 7y agoMy point is the fear is overblown.
- Operyl 7y agoUnfortunately, when you add severe mental health disorders into the mix you can't really follow this "logical implication" path you seem so hellbent on. Add to that the fact that we as a society tend to not treat these problems as an unfortunate disease (but treatable), and put down this part of our population as if they weren't humans too doesn't help either.
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