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I generally save "very sad" for when someone, you know, dies or something. I mean, if she really cared, she could have the content removed entirely. Rather th
by squidfood 12y ago
I generally save "very sad" for when someone, you know, dies or something.
I mean, if she really cared, she could have the content removed entirely. Rather than say, caring enough about getting credit by having the formerly anonymous child be linked to her blog.
- lutusp 12y agoI'm sure you've heard the saying that one death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is a statistic. In this case, even though no one died, someone's perception of reality was mortally wounded, and each reader of the article might have his or her grasp of reality materially changed. On the general topic, in the calculus of human suffering, how many small insults equals a death? How many dashed ideals equals a tragedy? This isn't meant to either disparage or inflate human suffering or try to mathematize human experience, only to ask what tools we use to quantify the human condition.
- rantanplan 12y agoYou almost wrote a whole essay without even addressing his main point.
- lutusp 12y agoIn fairness, when I replied to the parent comment it was much shorter than it is now and worded differently.
- rantanplan 12y agoFair enough. Didn't notice that. HN sucks for not storing the history :(
- noobermin 12y agoTo be honest, I read your comment as sarcastic.
- hluska 12y agoI came onto this thread to make this exactly comment. This particular paragraph ruined the entire article for me: Swamped with social media messages, “The View” responded appropriately and quickly. They removed the pirated video from their social media and re-shared the original video that had been created and uploaded by me.