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I am certain that people who want to read an article with this title are convinced that life has dealt them an unfair hand, and are willing to ignore or dismiss
by timr 4y ago
I am certain that people who want to read an article with this title are convinced that life has dealt them an unfair hand, and are willing to ignore or dismiss every example to the contrary.
...as this author has almost systematically done. It's not really a "lecture" when I'm just re-stating the facts in the story, is it?
- burkaman 4y agoIt's true, if you had only restated the facts it would not have been a lecture.
- kelnos 4y ago... which is... what they did.
- happytoexplain 4y ago>I am certain that people who want to read an article with this title are convinced that life has dealt them an unfair hand, and are willing to ignore or dismiss every example to the contrary. Wow, this is unrealistically antagonistic. I think you need some qualifiers somewhere in that assertion. Anybody who simply "wants to read an article with this title"? Every example to the contrary?
- kelnos 4y agoThe person you're replying to did not say "anybody". They said "people". In conversational English, the phrasing you quoted is not equivalent to "literally every single person who wants to read this article". Maybe stop assuming absolutism where most people would never intend it? Interpret posts with the most charitable interpretation possible given what's written? (Y'know, like the HN guidelines require of us in order to keep conversations civil?)
- atoav 4y ago> It's not really a "lecture" when I'm just re-stating the facts in the story, is it? If that was indeed what you were doing, no. But that was not what you were doing.