The theoretical world is awesome. Let’s pretend we are in the real world where it’s much more disappointing

I’m with you 100%, but if we take a journey in the real world for a second, I’d appreciate an answer to my question.

Also, as an aside, if you hear of a baby dying from being put into an oven mistakenly - what is your raw reaction as a human? Do you just say “oh goobers.” Or do you start poking at how this could happen? If you do start to poke, who or what do you poke first and why?

Are you suggesting people should assume postpartum depression/psychosis when they see stories like this?

What quick conclusion should people arrive at in your opinion

Your original post referred to wanting to hire people based on the tools they use to do a task, not their ability to do the task - in fact, you talked down to people for using certain tools by calling them elitist. That’s why my pen/pencil comparison is accurate.

Personally, I think caring about that is silly.

Lol that’s like not hiring someone because they take notes with a pen instead of a pencil.

I’m pretty sure cold things just taste less. Keep that in mind when a beer is advertised as “best” when freezing cold.

The company addressed the issue though. I’d agree with you if they were like “oh well, things happen” and that was it.

No one got away with anything.

It’s shitty he doesn’t link to the original video. He shows the original channel in his video, but isn’t directing traffic.

Pooped on the copier

Do you though? Don’t they garnish wages over it?

I completely agree. The post kinda combined the two ideas and I was trying to suggest separating them. Anyone can get harmfully hooked on anything.

Sit quietly in a room and meditate. Every time you want to reach for a device, meditate for 5 minutes. Just breathe.

Or just go for a walk without any tech.

Edit: separate the capitalist bit from what you’re going through. Dependency is an individual experience, and there are dealers out there, but it’s all about choices you make for yourself.

I 100% agree. But the dehumanizing comments like the one I originally responded to are just as useless. Fuck the assholes for falling for the same God damn cons each time, for hurting everyone with their beliefs. But they’re still people.

And if you want to look at it in a cold and calculated way, their idiocy can be useful. You just have to play to their emotions like what the gop does. They’re idiots. It’s not hard to trick or train them.

Conservative values are not conservative people. Hate the ones running the show, not the idiots following them.

Or sure, hate the idiots for being idiots, but that’s as useful as yelling at a brick.

I think you may have only met some extraordinarily harmful people or you have read too much of the Internet. Go meet a super strict conservative at the table. Shit, go out and make friendly conversation with a white supremacist. People can have awful beliefs for soooo many reasons but they’re still people with all the feelings you keep trying to deny them.

The phobias you mentioned aren’t really about empathy to begin with - a decade ago, they were about fear. Hence the name. And you haven’t admitted to your false claim of me blaming victims.

Quit demonizing swaths of people based on gross generalizations, dude. You’re adding to the bullshit that hurts us all.

First of all, I never blamed victims.

Secondly, you didn’t call it out for cruelty, you said “they” lack empathy, and “cannot see others as human”.

This is patently false and harmful. Try as you might, they’re not xenomorphs.

That is a gross generalization that contributes to the “us” v “them” idea. Plenty of people see others in the abstract until they are faced with it. And there is a small group of humans who don’t care. Don’t make things worse with this bullshit.

“I want a thing” “Why do you want that? Those are gross”

That’s where we are. There’s nothing really to substantiate, it’s just opinions.

You interjected in order to explain something that we already know.

I understand what they are, my argument is that they are not great.

Browser notifications are the worst, why would you want that