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A comment on Bill Gates: My Plan to Improve Our World, and How You Can Help. Parent comment

Re:Bill Gates: My Plan to Improve Our World, and How You Can... by selmnoo on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @01:24PM (#6719685)
> Nobody asked you, or anybody else.

Huh? And nobody asked you to reply to his comment. My goodness tptacek, this is a discussion board. Open-ended conversations take place here that drift off to all places. Sometimes they lead to interesting points, sometimes they don't. I see no reason to mock someone for that.

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Re:Bill Gates: My Plan to Improve Our World, and How You Can... by lifeisstillgood on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @04:16PM (#6721177)
if Tptacek had said "nobody asked you " I would agree. But he said nobody asked you or anyone else. None of us chose to be born, nor born into the circumstances we find ourselves. As we cannot control if we win or lose the lottery of western luxury or extreme poverty, those on the winning side should say "let's fix this" not "well if I was that unlucky I would rather be dead, so why can't they all just die and leave me alone" which is rather the undercurrent I was reading.
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