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0 pointsranger_danger4mo ago0 comments

If you share it in such a matter-of-fact, black-and-white manner, I do think it's an attempt to force it as the only way to see a particular issue, which is what I take issue with. There are so many confidently-wrong people in the world, I don't know why people got so used to acting like there can never be any other valid perspectives.

> Nothing happens if someone doesn't like you

Hard disagree, people have been killed just because they were disliked or offended, even if they appear to be a "stranger with zero influence on your reality."

> The fact there are generations of people who equate the feeling of being offended with physical harm is one of the great delusions of modern society.

I think it's because it does actually happen. I was almost punched yesterday just because I parked next to a guy. He was upset I didn't park "literally anywhere else" and was clearly embarrassing his wife and kids by hurling slurs at someone for absolutely no good reason at all.

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kachapopopow4mo ago

well there's tons of psychopaths in the world, it is a real mental disorder - considering he has a wife and kids it's probably manifesting as an outlet for fustration with his current life so yah I guess you're right that people can hate you for no reason, but it would be more correct to say that people will let out their fustration on random bystanders.

as for people causing others to kill themselves, well same could be applied with the slight difference of them turning that into a weapon to use against others as a coping mechanism.

this is really a topic that deserves very long and thoughtful discussion that you cannot achieve in hackernews comments.

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kachapopopow4mo ago

as for people causing others to kill themselves, well same could be applied with the slight difference of them turning that into a weapon to use against others as a coping mechanism.

this is really a topic that deserves very long and thoughtful discussion that you cannot achieve in hackernews comments.

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