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I'd work for the devil himself for 500k/year, and just convince myself he was misunderstood. "Blood on your hands" - oh boo-boo. Blood washes out.

pgcj_poster 6y ago
If real life were a Disney movie, do you imagine that you would be a hero or a villain?
- meddlepal 6y ago
  Neither, just a minor character of low plot importance.
- analognoise 6y ago
  I know infantilization is big with the tech set, but is this a serious question you'd ask an adult?
- ThrowawayR2 6y ago
  They'd be an uninteresting background character, just like myself and everyone else here.
dwaltrip 6y ago
That's too bad. There are whole worlds of fantastic experience that this type of viewpoint is holding you back from experiencing. Life can be very rough. It's certainly not fair, that's for sure. But there are many more possibilities and new perspectives waiting to be discovered and explored. We are limited by our current frame of mind and past experience. If we strive to continually break through these barriers, we will never stop surprising ourselves at what we find and learn. The universe is a vast and incredible place. It is can also be quite scary and dangerous, this is true. But deep within all of us is an unrelenting urge to work together to face these dangers and overcome them. If you stop for a minute, I'm sure you can feel it. My best wishes to you :)
- analognoise 6y ago
  I work with others to overcome dangers - by building things like missiles. The breathtaking presumptuousness and pompous assumption that my life viewpoint is holding me back is...amusing, honestly. I mean, you have your kid get cancer, then tell me if you wouldn't take a "blood on the hands" job like...working at Facebook?? Then tell me if my life experiences limit my views, or are perhaps just different than yours. I'm held back by my viewpoint from joining a cult. I don't see this as a loss.
  - dwaltrip 6y ago
    > I mean, you have your kid get cancer, then tell me if you wouldn't take a "blood on the hands" job like...working at Facebook?? That's worlds apart from what you wrote above. You said you would work for the devil himself. We weren’t talking about Facebook. Also, being overburdened with crippling medical bills for your dying child would obviously complicate the moral calculus. > The breathtaking presumptuousness and pompous assumption that my life viewpoint is holding me back is...amusing, honestly. Fair point... But I didn't have much to go off of. Look at what you wrote. It doesn't come across well.
    - analognoise 6y ago
      Yeah I see what you mean about what I wrote as well. This is what the internet was supposed to be. HN is the only place I've found that is still like that.

pgcj_poster 6y ago

If real life were a Disney movie, do you imagine that you would be a hero or a villain?

meddlepal 6y ago
Neither, just a minor character of low plot importance.
analognoise 6y ago
I know infantilization is big with the tech set, but is this a serious question you'd ask an adult?
ThrowawayR2 6y ago
They'd be an uninteresting background character, just like myself and everyone else here.

dwaltrip 6y ago

That's too bad. There are whole worlds of fantastic experience that this type of viewpoint is holding you back from experiencing. Life can be very rough. It's certainly not fair, that's for sure. But there are many more possibilities and new perspectives waiting to be discovered and explored. We are limited by our current frame of mind and past experience. If we strive to continually break through these barriers, we will never stop surprising ourselves at what we find and learn. The universe is a vast and incredible place. It is can also be quite scary and dangerous, this is true. But deep within all of us is an unrelenting urge to work together to face these dangers and overcome them. If you stop for a minute, I'm sure you can feel it. My best wishes to you :)

analognoise 6y ago
I work with others to overcome dangers - by building things like missiles. The breathtaking presumptuousness and pompous assumption that my life viewpoint is holding me back is...amusing, honestly. I mean, you have your kid get cancer, then tell me if you wouldn't take a "blood on the hands" job like...working at Facebook?? Then tell me if my life experiences limit my views, or are perhaps just different than yours. I'm held back by my viewpoint from joining a cult. I don't see this as a loss.
- dwaltrip 6y ago
  > I mean, you have your kid get cancer, then tell me if you wouldn't take a "blood on the hands" job like...working at Facebook?? That's worlds apart from what you wrote above. You said you would work for the devil himself. We weren’t talking about Facebook. Also, being overburdened with crippling medical bills for your dying child would obviously complicate the moral calculus. > The breathtaking presumptuousness and pompous assumption that my life viewpoint is holding me back is...amusing, honestly. Fair point... But I didn't have much to go off of. Look at what you wrote. It doesn't come across well.
  - analognoise 6y ago
    Yeah I see what you mean about what I wrote as well. This is what the internet was supposed to be. HN is the only place I've found that is still like that.