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> Its comments like this that have caused me to really lose faith in the quality of conversation on Hacker News. Interestingly, it's comments like yours that c
by zugi 4y ago
> Its comments like this that have caused me to really lose faith in the quality of conversation on Hacker News.
Interestingly, it's comments like yours that cause me to lose faith in the quality of conversation at Hacker News.
Basically Godwin'ing to "slavery" when the prior poster clearly talked about free will and choice is intellectual laziness.
- slumpt_ 4y agoFree will and choice suppose one's back isn't against a wall with respect to bills, a roof over one's head, medical or mental issues affecting either of the aforementioned. That we went from "I have no job at all and am unemployable" to "it appears I can be exploited for my labor at a rate that doesn't allow me to escape poverty, but may allow me to at least not starve to death" is not defensible or desirable. That you see it as acceptable or a reflection of a legitimate "choice" moreso reflects on your inexperience with or inability to adequately reason about the reality of sincere poverty, not reality.
- zugi 4y agoIn a discussion about Uber drivers you jump to slavery and nearly starving to death. Then follow it up with attacks on my "inexperience" and "inability to adequately reason." You are the one whose confrontational and disrespectful manner of conversing impedes legitimate discourse. The person lowering the quality of HN discussion is you.
- slumpt_ 4y agoI could have perhaps more delicately put my assessment that there are facets to poverty you appear to gloss over, either willingly or not. Can you address the first two paragraphs originally posted? You were upset with the third and opted to sidestep confronting the argument.