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Because, it is always all about you...
by searine 2mo ago
Because, it is always all about you...
- DaSHacka 2mo agoClearly his issue is not understanding its actually all about 'grandma'.
- declan_roberts 2mo ago"Think about grandma" was the covid version of "somebody think of the children"
- DaSHacka 2mo agoTruly, it's the same moralizing appeal-to-emotion but with a different target ("you care about grandma, right? you wouldn't want her to die, right?"). I've always felt it was strange that the argument was (and still is!) largely blindly supported on HN, like haven't we heard this one before?
- searine 2mo agoIt's about protecting each other, basic empathy. Doing the bare minimum to and taking miniscule risk to protect the lives of people around you. Sorry that's hard to understand.
- DaSHacka 2mo agoIt is 'hard to understand' if you get harmed in the process. Hence the jokes about 'doing it for grandma', or 'screwing yourself over with lifelong complications for someone who's already 80.'
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- declan_roberts 2mo agoThat's the definition of a personal decision.
- searine 2mo agoI might decide to shit on your front porch every morning. It is the definition of a personal decision.