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"Also, it's more than a little obnoxious to hand-wave an anecdote about personal loss away like this." Good. It's anecdotal I do not care. Basing your decision

"Also, it's more than a little obnoxious to hand-wave an anecdote about personal loss away like this." Good. It's anecdotal I do not care. Basing your decisions on anecdotal emotional evidence from some random poster on the internet is pure idiocy.

permo-w 6y ago
Perhaps take a step back? If someone told you this story about their dead 5 year old in person, would you be so abrasive? I suspect if you would, rightly or wrongly, you’d probably be faced with violence You aren’t being clever by dismissing people’s feelings and stories. Besides, give it some thought, are you being so rude based on emotions? Would you be replying like this if there weren’t politics involved? If it was some other company the Mail were attacking?
- CountDrewku 6y ago
  Yes because you don't get to use your personal emotional reasons to decide what I get to see. That's the asshole move, pointing it out is not. Lay out the facts as to why it's good/bad or don't say anything at all. Some personal story about how it made you feel bad is irrelevant and actually harmful to making an informed decision. Toddlers use emotional reasoning, be an adult.
  - permo-w 6y ago
    listen, I agree with you on a certain level. I hate news reports and docs where they try to jerk my emotions with sad music and sob stories but this is not that. this is a presumably real person telling a story that’s very sensitive to them. they’re not trying to trick you, or manipulate you. they’re just giving an example of how they were treated by the daily mail you’re acting like a petulant autistic child everyone - including you - uses emotional reasoning. you will learn this at some point. even if you don’t want people to be emotional, they are. the human world is emotional, and trying to navigate it while being a dick to anyone who shows emotions will serve you extremely poorly finally your rude tone betrays your hypocrisy. you’re emotionally involved in this, and you’re not acting rationally because of it

permo-w 6y ago

Perhaps take a step back? If someone told you this story about their dead 5 year old in person, would you be so abrasive? I suspect if you would, rightly or wrongly, you’d probably be faced with violence You aren’t being clever by dismissing people’s feelings and stories. Besides, give it some thought, are you being so rude based on emotions? Would you be replying like this if there weren’t politics involved? If it was some other company the Mail were attacking?

CountDrewku 6y ago
Yes because you don't get to use your personal emotional reasons to decide what I get to see. That's the asshole move, pointing it out is not. Lay out the facts as to why it's good/bad or don't say anything at all. Some personal story about how it made you feel bad is irrelevant and actually harmful to making an informed decision. Toddlers use emotional reasoning, be an adult.
- permo-w 6y ago
  listen, I agree with you on a certain level. I hate news reports and docs where they try to jerk my emotions with sad music and sob stories but this is not that. this is a presumably real person telling a story that’s very sensitive to them. they’re not trying to trick you, or manipulate you. they’re just giving an example of how they were treated by the daily mail you’re acting like a petulant autistic child everyone - including you - uses emotional reasoning. you will learn this at some point. even if you don’t want people to be emotional, they are. the human world is emotional, and trying to navigate it while being a dick to anyone who shows emotions will serve you extremely poorly finally your rude tone betrays your hypocrisy. you’re emotionally involved in this, and you’re not acting rationally because of it