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As martyrdoms go, being downvoted is pretty tolerable. Beats being shot or tortured. Heck, even missing out on job opportunities is not really that big a deal
by zeveb 6y ago
As martyrdoms go, being downvoted is pretty tolerable. Beats being shot or tortured. Heck, even missing out on job opportunities is not really that big a deal.
(N.b. for those unfamiliar with the term: 'martyr' comes the Greek word μάρτυρ, meaning 'witness.' The modern secondary meaning 'suicide murderer' is … something else entirely.)
- fouc 6y agoNoun. A person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs. Verb. Kill (someone) because of their beliefs. Example: ‘she was martyred for her faith’
- gjm11 6y agoI've never seen anyone downvoted here for admitting to being a Christian. (Or a Buddhist or atheist or whatever.) I have seen people, completely deservedly, get downvoted for trying to use HN as a venue for proselytism, or for denying well established scientific discoveries that happen to conflict with things they hold as religious doctrine, or for other varieties of rudeness or stupidity that would earn them downvotes whatever their reason for doing it. Incidentally, I haven't seen "martyr" used to mean "suicide murderer". I think the usual modern meaning is "person killed, or perhaps just severely persecuted, for their religion". (And then of course it gets used metaphorically to refer to any sort of actual or perceived persecution for any reason; but the underlying meaning is what I said.)