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What a terrible person, selfishly trying to spend their own money to address problems important to them. Again, real piece of shit.

• metadat 4y ago
  Did you really delete your downvoted comment from another post in this thread and affix it here? Gee, thanks, I'm flattered. Edit: My mistake, you posted a nearly identical comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34376436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34376436 So sorry for the confusion! Thank you for ensuring the mark of anm89 is uniformly applied.
  • anm89 4y ago
    This doesn't even make sense. This comment is clearly a response to your parent comment. How could my response to your comment have been in another thread if your parent comment wasn't in the other thread? I'm honestly curious as to what other thread you think I deleted something off.
• mistermann 4y ago
  Hyperbole can be both helpful and detrimental to the quality of one's thinking.
• woodruffw 4y ago
  I don't think the person you're replying to said that. If I had to characterize it: giving money to charitable causes that benefit you indicates a heternomous will, which in turn voids the act of any moral value. It might be beneficial to society for Brin to plow his money into Parkinson's research, but he gets no particular praise (or fault) for doing a thing that benefits him.