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Sure, it may be focused on saving him, but that doesn't mean that what he's doing isn't good for other people too. Getting potential donors (especially in an un
by kyleslattery 15y ago
Sure, it may be focused on saving him, but that doesn't mean that what he's doing isn't good for other people too. Getting potential donors (especially in an under-represented group) to sign up for the bone marrow registry is a all around good thing, who cares if they're doing it because Amit got them to? They might end up being able to save someone else's life.
- AndrewMoffat 15y agoI'm not sure what part of my comment you're addressing. The only real point I made was that his plight was shameless. I understand if saying that makes people upset, but it doesn't make it less true.
- michaels0620 15y agoAnd repeating it doesn't make it any more true. In what sense his is plea for help shameless? Should he simply sit back, do nothing, and hope something works out? It's not like he is taking from others for his own benefit. Indeed as others have pointed out, it's likely that his campaign has benefited others, not only himself.
- AndrewMoffat 15y agoI did not say it does not benefit anyone else. I just said it was shameless. shameless: 2. done without shame; without decency or modesty modesty: 1. having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.;
- gks 15y agoLife and Death. At what point do you admit to yourself you love your life and want to continue to live? At that point, that's when shamelessness and modesty are thrown on the window and you do what you can to try to survive.
- suhastech 15y agoIf whatever you are doing works out for you, it would be cool to see the point you are trying to make by commenting on other peoples' life-threatening needs shamelessly. I did not say that you are cynical. I just said you are shameless.
- iron_ball 15y agoIn what philosophical framework does modesty or even decency come before preservation of one's own life? This isn't Breaking Bad -- making a website and asking for help is pretty well unimpeachable IMO.
- AndrewMoffat 15y agoHe's not morally wrong, I'm saying the nature of what he's doing is shameless. Clearly this is an important issue to him, but he's vastly overestimating his importance to everyone else. If every person with a need had a poster plastered around the city with their name on it, every city would be covered from sidewalk to rooftop. I'm just calling it like I see it.
- palish 15y agoCould we all just agree to disagree and leave it at that...?
- AndrewMoffat 15y agoI still have about 680 karma to burn through.
- unreal37 15y agoNow only 590...
- Garbage 15y agoAnd now even less than that. (567)
- AndrewMoffat 15y agoNow even less than that! (565)
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- sundarurfriend 15y agoI guess HN doesn't have much experience dealing with trolls. Copy-pasta replies, repetitiveness, lack of rational argument and the _need_ to be contra-norm all point that way. Please, let's stop feeding this and letting it take up half the comment space on this.
- 0x12 15y agoI fear that he's not actually trolling.
- sundarurfriend 15y agoYeah, it appeared like trolling only until he replied to your comment above. That seems to be the first thread he's attempted to apply some logic here.