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Proselytizing isn't help. A mentally ill woman shrieking about a wizard who lives in the sky isn't support.
by awnird 2y ago
Proselytizing isn't help. A mentally ill woman shrieking about a wizard who lives in the sky isn't support.
- otikik 2y agoPerhaps, but you would not have said that to her if you were there.
- skyyler 2y agoI absolutely would have. I don't need the support of an imaginary friend when facing oppressive customs laws.
- otikik 2y agoThe thing is, I know that you are not that kind of übermen. Because übermen don't waste their valuable time on Hacker News :).
- skyyler 2y agoI don't think it takes a special kind of person to not be comforted by the imaginary when facing an uncaring machine ready to devour them.
- neither_color 2y agoTelling someone in a seemingly hopeless situation that there is a high probability that things will get better because their imaginary friend is more powerful than the machinations of a despotic state is actually preferable to telling them that there's no imaginary friend and nobody is coming to save them. It's a common enough theme in prison camp survival autobiographies. The so-called "logical" thing to tell them in this hypothetical scenario is not the optimal thing, so maybe it's not the most logical thing to say/do.
- skyyler 2y ago>their imaginary friend is more powerful than the machinations of a despotic state This is the sort of thing that makes a lot of sense if you have an imaginary friend but sounds a little deranged if you don't.
- hobs 2y agoOnly because that person is an implicit threat, not because they are helping. My first thought would be akin to "oh fuck, the lizard people are here now."