Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?

Re:Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people d... by growlist on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:22AM (#22044110)

The forces of chaos certainly seem to be in the ascendant in the West. A British woman makes thousands a month taking her clothes off online and selling her bathwater to perverts etc., yet if I call this out I'm liable to being labelled a dinosaur, misogynistic, hateful, etc. etc. In today's society possessing what were once considered traditional morals is liable to leave one at best socially isolated and at worst destitute.

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Re:Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people d... by Nasrudith on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @01:38PM (#22047847)

There is a very good reason for that - "traditional morals" frankly are full of horrifying things accepted without comment and harmless things called the great Satan.

Wars of colonialism, soldiers paid in plunder and rape, massacre of those only trying to defend their besieged home? Fine or even righteous when we do it. When others do they are foul invaders.

Meanwhile, anything remotely lurid or new culturally is treated as an apocalyptic issue and the well of all sins. A streamer making money selling bathwater and being widely mocked doesn't even belong on the map of moral problems even when compared to petty examples of actual problems like parking ticket fixing rings. While limited in impact they are a clear warning sign of growing corruption.

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Re:Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people d... by growlist on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @08:50AM (#22054080)

> actual problems like parking ticket fixing rings

Personally I'm more worried about this, which I suppose makes me a hateful bigot: 'Asian grooming gang free to roam streets because officers were told to 'find other ethnicities' to investigate, detective claims '

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Re:Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people d... by prometheus76 on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @09:48AM (#22045142)

There are still girls in churches waiting for a faithful man to lead them to marriage and to a content life in a healthy relationship.

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Re:Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people d... by geggam on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:47AM (#22044653)

Remember when a man of discriminating taste was considered good for society ?

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