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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by HideousKojima on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:49PM (#38943730)
I know this may come as a shock, so you may want to sit down for this one: those indigenous tribes and cultures were genociding each other for millennia before Adam Smith ever wrote The Wealth of Nations.
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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @05:24PM (#38944273)
Do you realize you responded precisely in the way I described a response to this would be?

This is how perfectly predictable this argument is.

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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by HideousKojima on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @07:38PM (#38945758)
And yet predictable != inaccurate

If I predict ahead of time that my plans to install a puppet government in Machuria and invade China are going to be compared unfavorably to Japan's actions in WW2, that doesn't somehow magically make the comparison inaccurate just because I predicted it.

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