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Yeah if you slap a billionaire in the face, he may succumb to the temptation to feel like he was slapped in the face. I still say, the best way to avoid that f

Yeah if you slap a billionaire in the face, he may succumb to the temptation to feel like he was slapped in the face. I still say, the best way to avoid that feeling is not to be slapped in the face. Just my personal preference.

christkv 4y ago
They might have an abusive partner, a sick child or any other thing that is not related to money.
Taywee 4y ago
The most common way that we are all victims is the inevitable deaths of us and everybody and everything that we care about, and no billionaire is yet immune to that. Maybe one day we can simply not die, but until then, we are all victims of our own mortality, and plenty of people of all sorts feel plenty bad about that.
- DarylZero 4y ago
  The death of a loved one is another instance when one may be tempted to feel bereft.
- DarylZero 4y ago
  ...and even the richest people will deny the reality of that through their religion.
  - ellopoppit 4y ago
    Seems like a much more practical and/or positive way to live one's life than feeling like a fearful victim of death
    - DarylZero 4y ago
      A contemptible moral failing.
incrudible 4y ago
Are you always on guard about being slapped in the face? Surely there must be something you can be made victim of that is not on your mind at all times? Do you always check your shoes at the off-chance that someone hid a razorblade in there?
- DarylZero 4y ago
  I'm not getting your point with these questions. Someone who is a victim of an assault may be "on guard" or "hyper-vigilant" for some time afterward. I can remember such an instance in my own life after I was robbed at gunpoint in a foreign country. Someone who is a victim of repeated assaults during childhood is very likely to tend toward hyper-vigilance their entire lifetime (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_post-traumatic_stress_disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_post-traumatic_stress_...) but that's not me.
amelius 4y ago
From the article: > Shortly after the divorce, Charlie learned that his son, Teddy, had leukemia. What exactly is your solution?
- DarylZero 4y ago
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christkv 4y ago

They might have an abusive partner, a sick child or any other thing that is not related to money.

Taywee 4y ago

The most common way that we are all victims is the inevitable deaths of us and everybody and everything that we care about, and no billionaire is yet immune to that. Maybe one day we can simply not die, but until then, we are all victims of our own mortality, and plenty of people of all sorts feel plenty bad about that.

DarylZero 4y ago
The death of a loved one is another instance when one may be tempted to feel bereft.
DarylZero 4y ago
...and even the richest people will deny the reality of that through their religion.
- ellopoppit 4y ago
  Seems like a much more practical and/or positive way to live one's life than feeling like a fearful victim of death
  - DarylZero 4y ago
    A contemptible moral failing.

incrudible 4y ago

Are you always on guard about being slapped in the face? Surely there must be something you can be made victim of that is not on your mind at all times? Do you always check your shoes at the off-chance that someone hid a razorblade in there?

DarylZero 4y ago
I'm not getting your point with these questions. Someone who is a victim of an assault may be "on guard" or "hyper-vigilant" for some time afterward. I can remember such an instance in my own life after I was robbed at gunpoint in a foreign country. Someone who is a victim of repeated assaults during childhood is very likely to tend toward hyper-vigilance their entire lifetime (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_post-traumatic_stress_disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_post-traumatic_stress_...) but that's not me.

amelius 4y ago

From the article: > Shortly after the divorce, Charlie learned that his son, Teddy, had leukemia. What exactly is your solution?

DarylZero 4y ago
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