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>As someone slightly on the spectrum, I regularly get accused of being "obtuse" when I'm asking honest questions to make sense of something. I'm similar, but I
by castlecrasher2 4y ago
>As someone slightly on the spectrum, I regularly get accused of being "obtuse" when I'm asking honest questions to make sense of something.
I'm similar, but I've come to recognize that the default of communication is asshole, and the best method to avoid that is to ensure you're meeting others halfway in a conversation.
I imagine most would agree that the parent comment's statement "Why was the McDonald's one not frivolous? Was it just because it was 185 degrees?" comes off as somewhat ignorant in that they could have done a quick Google search or asked less defensively if they genuinely wanted an answer. Their followup comment is even worse.
- giantg2 4y agoI realize now that my wording could have been different. Just as my comment made the assumption we were talking about the culpability portion of the case, many other commenters assumed we were talking about just the injury portion of the case. I did try to search for info. But like this thread, I was only finding stuff about the temperature and the injury. Another commenter brought up the defective cup design here. This was the type of info I was looking for related to culpability that I couldn't find. This is what I like about HN - the google search results were not useful since it's (appearently) such a divisive topic, but a well informed HN'er had the additional info.