Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths
by michael1999 on Sunday December 15, 2024 @07:07PM
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I don't quite understand your point. I contradicted you because I'm old, and I'm getting tired of people calling things that I vividly remember "urban legends". Lizard people in the sewers is an urban legend. That mean old drunk giving one-way tickets to Vancouver is history.
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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths
by Tiktaalik on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @02:38AM
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The point is that there's a difference between "this is a thing that has happened" and "this is a thing that happens". The latter thing is the toxic exaggeration of the truth IMO.
Like you're absolutely right that this particular rare event has happened before and I'm not discounting that, but the phrasing of the OPs story more suggests at the form of this story that is the myth that this is a trend and frequent occurrence.
I follow your point. Certainly this is more real than lizard people in the sewer, but not as real as people would have you believe when they casually exaggerate and insinuate that all the homeless around are from elsewhere and are being trucked in to this day.
Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths
by michael1999 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @03:53PM
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Please don't call real events that you acknowledge "urban legends". You demean our cognitive commons with language like that, and undermine your own credibility.