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> they are not essential Welcome to civilisation. We do things than aren't survival focused.

• Scapeghost 7y ago
  It would be nice if you remembered civility before making all your passive-aggressive jabs in the comments here, like calling someone "incel" for, what, saying that destroying flowers might be wrong? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943627) What makes you so angry about arguing against destruction and waste?
  • easytiger 7y ago
    Are you quite serious?
  • 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y ago
    Your comment here is far more uncivil and aggressive than the one you're replying to.
    • Scapeghost 7y ago
      easytiger has multiple comments here attacking the same parent(s): https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=easytiger https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=easytiger You may need to enable your "showdead" option to see some of them. I'm not sure how I've said anything more uncivil and aggressive than calling people "incels", lingo that is more suited for Reddit and 4chan than HN. I'm just baffled at how some people get so angry at someone for saying maybe we shouldn't be killing something.
      • easytiger 7y ago
        That's not what they said and I was not aware I was replying to the same person, if indeed I was. People going around and reductively deciding to morally posit that people who like flowers are morally repugnant should be assuredly told their opinion doesn't matter. They called displaying cut flowers a > bizarre and grotesque custom And then went on to compare it with human slavery. If you don't think that's ridiculous on a whole number of levels (some of which levels speak to the psychology of the person), you need to take a long hard look at yourself.