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Perhaps, but you would not have said that to her if you were there.
by otikik 2y ago
Perhaps, 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."