Re:Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore
by concordDance on Friday August 23, 2019 @05:32PM
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This reply annoys me.
Gun control?
THAT's your example of the world being on fire?
If nothing is done about it 12k Americans a year will die, that isnt really going to have much of an effect in the long run for the vast majority of us.
There are plenty of actual "world on fire" debates you could have used, including:
* Climate change
* Nuclear proliferation
* Antibiotic resistance
* Aquifer sustainability
* AGI
* Dystopian trends
* Dysgenic trends
Things that are on the actual "this has potential to kill or drastically reduce quality of life for billions of people" level (even if some are pretty far fetched in my view).
"World on fire" topics do exist, and for some reason they aren't the ones that result in toxicity.
Gun control? THAT's your example of the world being on fire?
If nothing is done about it 12k Americans a year will die, that isnt really going to have much of an effect in the long run for the vast majority of us. There are plenty of actual "world on fire" debates you could have used, including:
* Climate change
* Nuclear proliferation
* Antibiotic resistance
* Aquifer sustainability
* AGI
* Dystopian trends
* Dysgenic trends
Things that are on the actual "this has potential to kill or drastically reduce quality of life for billions of people" level (even if some are pretty far fetched in my view).
"World on fire" topics do exist, and for some reason they aren't the ones that result in toxicity.