Re:Shame on Y Combinator
by dlss on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @12:48PM
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> As long as an ideology is small enough, completely shunning it's adherents is actually the best strategy
Until the thousandth time you use this tactic, and the number of people shunned begins to outnumber the ones doing the shunning.
> when my grandchildren ask me in 40 years or so I want to be able to say "I did everything that's legal".
I'm sorry to hear this. I hope in time you can come to focus on the similarities you have to your fellow humans rather than what sounds like a myopic focus on purely ideological differences.
As I said in GGGP to excuse your actions:
> sometimes a person needs to make mistakes / destroy something beautiful in order to find the next level of understanding
Re:Shame on Y Combinator
by adrienne on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @06:10AM
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"Purely ideological differences" like whether sexual assault is okay and whether Muslims can be American citizens. Nope. Not going to just "agree to disagree" on that shit.
Until the thousandth time you use this tactic, and the number of people shunned begins to outnumber the ones doing the shunning.
> when my grandchildren ask me in 40 years or so I want to be able to say "I did everything that's legal".
I'm sorry to hear this. I hope in time you can come to focus on the similarities you have to your fellow humans rather than what sounds like a myopic focus on purely ideological differences.
As I said in GGGP to excuse your actions:
> sometimes a person needs to make mistakes / destroy something beautiful in order to find the next level of understanding