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So the author of this post can't see the reason why anyone would want to pay for this, and yet backed the project himself anyway? It reminds me of the people y

by bobbles 14y ago

So the author of this post can't see the reason why anyone would want to pay for this, and yet backed the project himself anyway? It reminds me of the people you see who write forums posts like 'I just got my first Mac, now what?' when the answer is always 'do whatever you wanted it for in the first place'

alexknowshtml 14y ago
No, I can reason the multitude of reasons that someone would pay, including my own. Empathy is a helluva drug.
2muchcoffeeman 14y ago
That's not unreasonable. I too have spent money on stuff that I did not understand just to see what it was. It was only $50.
larrys 14y ago
"yet backed the project himself anyway?" Per the OP: "By the way, I put my $50 in out of pure morbid curiosity of what’s under the hood." I think you can both think something probably isn't going to work or have issues with it and support it as a hedge or out of, as he said, "morbid curiosity". People do this with politics quite frequently.
- philwelch 14y ago
  > People do this with politics quite frequently. Really? Do you have an example? "I didn't really think the war in Iraq would go very well, and I don't really support it; I just wanted to see what would happen."
  - pbreit 14y ago
    Probably referring to giving money to candidates who have no chance of winning. Your bad faith example is ridiculous.
    - philwelch 14y ago
      I couldn't think of a non-ridiculous example, so thanks for providing one. However, your bad faith assumption that I was commenting in bad faith is a dick move.
  - larrys 14y ago
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703757504575194502882068296.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870375750457519... http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/06/dueling-donations-lobbyists-lining-pockets-of-both.html http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/06/dueling-donations-lo... You can find examples here of the same individual supporting people in both parties: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/indivs.php http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/indivs.php
    - philwelch 14y ago
      Supporting both parties is just support for the status quo, really, it doesn't really require opposing anything. Supporting individual candidates from both parties is even less suspicious.

by bobbles 14y ago

alexknowshtml 14y ago

No, I can reason the multitude of reasons that someone would pay, including my own. Empathy is a helluva drug.

2muchcoffeeman 14y ago

That's not unreasonable. I too have spent money on stuff that I did not understand just to see what it was. It was only $50.

larrys 14y ago

"yet backed the project himself anyway?" Per the OP: "By the way, I put my $50 in out of pure morbid curiosity of what’s under the hood." I think you can both think something probably isn't going to work or have issues with it and support it as a hedge or out of, as he said, "morbid curiosity". People do this with politics quite frequently.

philwelch 14y ago
> People do this with politics quite frequently. Really? Do you have an example? "I didn't really think the war in Iraq would go very well, and I don't really support it; I just wanted to see what would happen."
- pbreit 14y ago
  Probably referring to giving money to candidates who have no chance of winning. Your bad faith example is ridiculous.
  - philwelch 14y ago
    I couldn't think of a non-ridiculous example, so thanks for providing one. However, your bad faith assumption that I was commenting in bad faith is a dick move.
- larrys 14y ago
  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703757504575194502882068296.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870375750457519... http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/06/dueling-donations-lobbyists-lining-pockets-of-both.html http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/06/dueling-donations-lo... You can find examples here of the same individual supporting people in both parties: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/indivs.php http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/indivs.php
  - philwelch 14y ago
    Supporting both parties is just support for the status quo, really, it doesn't really require opposing anything. Supporting individual candidates from both parties is even less suspicious.