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0 pointsTharkun10y ago0 comments

The US is obviously a very fucked up place.

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The US is a fucked up place because they want to make sure a babysitter doesn't shake their baby to death or a housecleaner doesn't break or pocket something without admitting it? Hyperbole much?

izacus10y ago

Hrmf, and your sentence isn't a hyperbole?

I mean, if we extend your logic, we should monitor everyone at all times because someone might just accidentally do something to hurt your child right? You never know why an extremely rare event like you mentioned could happen.

icebraining10y ago

Everyone is usually being monitored when around children of strangers; we just usually do so with human eyes instead of cameras. Babysitting is an exception, but why should it be?

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lostlogin10y ago

A camera doesn't stop either of those things, it just shows them happening.

mikeash10y ago

Which stops them from happening again.

Edit: also, cameras don't have to be secret. Knowledge that they're being recorded can often stop it happening the first time.

maxerickson10y ago

So the camera is the thin line between the stranger killing the child or not? Sounds pretty fucked up.

(I realize this isn't really addressing your intended meaning, but the ambiguity is there in what you said, which is pretty...)

Dylan1680710y ago

Pretty what? All sentences are ambiguous if you try hard enough. If you could tell what the meaning was, why are you insulting a strawman while actively admitting it is a strawman?

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lectrick10y ago

The US is a fucked up place because they want to make sure a babysitter doesn't shake their baby to death or a housecleaner doesn't break or pocket something without admitting it? Hyperbole much?

izacus10y ago

Hrmf, and your sentence isn't a hyperbole?

icebraining10y ago

Everyone is usually being monitored when around children of strangers; we just usually do so with human eyes instead of cameras. Babysitting is an exception, but why should it be?

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lostlogin10y ago

A camera doesn't stop either of those things, it just shows them happening.

mikeash10y ago

Which stops them from happening again.

Edit: also, cameras don't have to be secret. Knowledge that they're being recorded can often stop it happening the first time.

maxerickson10y ago

So the camera is the thin line between the stranger killing the child or not? Sounds pretty fucked up.

(I realize this isn't really addressing your intended meaning, but the ambiguity is there in what you said, which is pretty...)

Dylan1680710y ago

Pretty what? All sentences are ambiguous if you try hard enough. If you could tell what the meaning was, why are you insulting a strawman while actively admitting it is a strawman?

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