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I don't know that you're a terrible person, but I'd say you have a characteristic I'll leave others to identify, because what you write sounds like you consider

I don't know that you're a terrible person, but I'd say you have a characteristic I'll leave others to identify, because what you write sounds like you consider emotional reactions to be prescribed enactments rather than automatic reactions. You're not supposed to feel bad as if according to some rules, but most people automatically would.

Tabular-Iceberg 3y ago
I mean the alternative is to go when the chicks are alive and watching them get swallowed whole by skuas. Antarctica is no petting zoo, but maybe some less serious tour operators make it out to be one and this is the result of that.
- lazide 3y ago
  I think it’s more a common tourism problem, which is thinking what the experience will be like is quite different than actually experiencing it. or as the highly experienced Mr. Tyson put a not too dissimilar situation so eloquently - “everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face”
Dylan16807 3y ago
I think it's okay to mention that as a possibility, but odds are you're reading way too far into that common wording.
- archsurface 3y ago
  I can't say that I agree with you in the slightest.
  - Dylan16807 3y ago
    Not in the slightest? Because I'm pretty sure asking if you were "supposed to" feel something is in fact a common turn of phrase.
    - archsurface 3y ago
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      - Dylan16807 3y ago
        Well I got a lot more upvotes than I usually see, which is a pretty strong signal that it's in many people's dialects. So even if it's not in yours, it quite likely is for the person that said it.
  - digging 3y ago
    What you seem to be saying is that you have absolutely no doubt that it's reasonable to diagnose mental conditions based on a single short comment posted online. That is, simply put, wrong and dangerous.
teaearlgraycold 3y ago
Supposed to can mean “expected to”. In fact, that is more so the original meaning.
Per_Bothner 3y ago
And people may judge you if you don't react in the way people think "normal people" react. People have been convicted of murder because police or juries though they didn't react the way they were "supposed to".
- devilbunny 3y ago
  This is one of the few things I have learned from my wife’s love of TV about crime.
  - prmoustache 3y ago
    oh you too have this problem? My SO seems to be fascinated by those horror stories and how crimes are solved that leave me wondering sometimes if she isn't just documenting herself on how to do the perfect crime that wouldn't lead to her being caught.
    - devilbunny 3y ago
      She and her mother. My FIL and I go out to dinner with each other to get away from it, our wives are just fine eating takeout and watching crime shows.
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Tabular-Iceberg 3y ago

I mean the alternative is to go when the chicks are alive and watching them get swallowed whole by skuas. Antarctica is no petting zoo, but maybe some less serious tour operators make it out to be one and this is the result of that.

lazide 3y ago
I think it’s more a common tourism problem, which is thinking what the experience will be like is quite different than actually experiencing it. or as the highly experienced Mr. Tyson put a not too dissimilar situation so eloquently - “everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face”

Dylan16807 3y ago

I think it's okay to mention that as a possibility, but odds are you're reading way too far into that common wording.

archsurface 3y ago
I can't say that I agree with you in the slightest.
- Dylan16807 3y ago
  Not in the slightest? Because I'm pretty sure asking if you were "supposed to" feel something is in fact a common turn of phrase.
  - archsurface 3y ago
    [flagged]
    - Dylan16807 3y ago
      Well I got a lot more upvotes than I usually see, which is a pretty strong signal that it's in many people's dialects. So even if it's not in yours, it quite likely is for the person that said it.
- digging 3y ago
  What you seem to be saying is that you have absolutely no doubt that it's reasonable to diagnose mental conditions based on a single short comment posted online. That is, simply put, wrong and dangerous.

teaearlgraycold 3y ago

Supposed to can mean “expected to”. In fact, that is more so the original meaning.

Per_Bothner 3y ago

And people may judge you if you don't react in the way people think "normal people" react. People have been convicted of murder because police or juries though they didn't react the way they were "supposed to".

devilbunny 3y ago
This is one of the few things I have learned from my wife’s love of TV about crime.
- prmoustache 3y ago
  oh you too have this problem? My SO seems to be fascinated by those horror stories and how crimes are solved that leave me wondering sometimes if she isn't just documenting herself on how to do the perfect crime that wouldn't lead to her being caught.
  - devilbunny 3y ago
    She and her mother. My FIL and I go out to dinner with each other to get away from it, our wives are just fine eating takeout and watching crime shows.

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