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Pretty gross that you're using your friend's brain tumor to pimp your startup.
by mynameisme 13y ago
Pretty gross that you're using your friend's brain tumor to pimp your startup.
- mbuss 13y agoAgreed. Hard to believe someone would do this.
- chrischen 13y agoSeriously? And which one of you bothered to ask the cancer guy what he thought? Stop judging from a distance, or at least get some binoculars.
- yummyfajitas 13y agoIf I had a brain tumor I'd want my friend/cofounder to use it to pimp our startup. If she can move our business forward while I'm ill, that's wonderful for both of us.
- coldtea 13y ago>If I had a brain tumor I'd want my friend/cofounder to use it to pimp our startup. Even if my ill friend/cofounder "wanted" that (which amounts to "was ok with it"), I still wouldn't do it. Being human is more important than pimping a company for the big cash out.
- true_religion 13y agoI think that implying that people not following your viewport are not 'human' is a pretty far leap...
- anigbrowl 13y agoBrain tumors are exactly the sort of thing that tend to make people re-evaluate your priorities, so I'm not sure how good of a guide your unworried self is to a situation like that. Besides that, there's also the possibility that pimping it the wrong way will put people off dealing with the startup. That seems to be the majority response here, and the article also made a strong negative impresion on me. Now, on the one hand I want the startup to succeed since his co-founder is either facing massive medical costs for all the neurosurgery (at worst) or a massive increase in health insurance premiums (at best). On the other I don't like being manipulated into feeling I should use/support this firm because of my natural sympathy for anyone who has brain cancer.
- mathgladiator 13y ago> Agreed. Hard to believe someone would do this. If I had a cancer with kids, then I would want my business partner to pimp the start-up as much as possible to raise the value of my shares for my family.
- graeme 13y agoSemi-related question: is the word gross being redefined? I only remember it being used for something physically revolting. Lately, I've seen it used to mean "unseemingly, icky in the non-physical sense, a morally bad act". Anyone else seen this, or know what segments are driving the redefinition? Urban dictionary stuck to old sense, but this is about the fifth time I've seen it used this way.
- mathgladiator 13y agoI think the right word is morbid.
- saraid216 13y agoLanguage drift. "physical revulsion" -> "physical revulsion at a morally bad act" -> "morally bad act"