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Re:Life, Death, and Retirement by dang on Monday October 07, 2024 @01:49PM (#41768786)
I'm sure you didn't intend it, but responding to the GP in a cross-examining way ("don't you have friends?", "I would think your top priority") comes across as personally aggressive. That's not how we want people to be treating one another here, especially on the such a painful and intimate topic. Whatever the person who is living such a situation may need, obvious internet criticisms are not it, so comments like this don't help, only hurt.

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Re:Life, Death, and Retirement by rexpop on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @09:11PM (#41865484)
> comes across as personally aggressive

Oof, this is obvious in retrospect, and I regret it. Unfortunately, there are some very useful rhetorical angles which do not translate to text, and pity is one of them.