Hey, what a surprise: a troll that doesn't want to read anything besides stroke stories. Keep covering those eyes, See No Evil. Maybe you and the rest of the monkeys can put your hands over your mouths, too.
In the modern world, almost all scarcity is created scarcity. We could feed, clothe, and house everyone in the world world without doing anything besides taxing billionaires to the point where they're "only" millionaires. Well, if you include the churches and the royals, that is. Which I do.
Nah, you're a troll because your response to someone making an argument is a pithy comment and a "I won't read that." It's not a question of you agreeing with me or valuing my opinion. It's that you treat any argument as a game, one you can change the rules to whenever you start to lose.
Google "Just World Fallacy."
I guarantee you, having been both poor and rich? I'd trade the worries I had when I was poor for the ones I had when I was rich every day and twice on Sunday.
No they don't. Google "Complex PTSD." Developing a tough shell isn't a privilege, it's a toxic coping strategy.
Just World Fallacy again. Study after study shows that people are happiest when they have a minimum level of wealth, and that having that minimum level of wealth makes them more likely to also have healthy family and friendship connections, better opportunities, etc. Your argument is the "blind people have sharper hearing!" argument, a provably false statement that we've known is false for years, and which people still promulgate because it makes them feel better, either that they're doing better than the next guy (it's not my fault I'm privileged) or to cope with their inferior social/economic status (We're only poor in wealth, but we're rich in spirit!). They're both used to keep the status quo intact, and they're both bad.
Everyone MIGHT have a bad time coming. I might get hit by a bus tomorrow, but if I run through crosswalks without looking both ways, I'm more likely to. The "bad day" for a privileged person is a lot less likely to lead to homelessness, unrecoverable health issues, etc. than for an underprivileged person. Again, pure, provable facts.
Because it was a gigantic pile of shit. Like, it took me three seconds to come up with the first unassailable argument against it, and they just kept coming.
Well, let's see. I've been happily married for two decades, with three great kids, a job that pays well and I enjoy decently enough, hobbies that make me happy, friends I enjoy being around, and a nice place to live. I've received the help that I needed over the last decade to get me into a place where I'm happy with myself--even if I would like to lose some weight--and to understand the difficulties that I did have when I was younger, which mostly stemmed from undiagnosed ADHD; medicine helps with that a lot (that's one of those places I didn't roll an 18). I've put my past struggles in their context, forgiven those who transgressed against me, rebuilt the bonds I want to, and am in a successful, happy place in my life.
I have to imagine that last one is a typo, but if not, it's actually an accurate summation. If you're not with me, you should be. Even if you think you're against me, you're probably not; you just haven't realized that we're all in this together yet. Unless they're a troll; fuck them. "I am very clever, look how easy it is for me to anger people" isn't a cogent political stance.
Belligerent? Only in the face of belligerence. Dismissive? Sometimes. There comes a point when you see the same arguments over and over again, and you reach the point of responding in shorthand. If I say "Google X," I've been there, had the argument, gotten the t-shirt. There are better people than me that have successfully made the argument, and you're better off reading their words than mine.
But the road out also is. I'll never know, at the end of my life, if I made it a better place. But I can try. It's that or sit there like the cartoon dog in the fire saying, "This is fine." I know which one I'll choose.
If you have a surface paved with good intentions, you can pile good actions on it until you've built a building, and then the road won't be passable anymore.
One last one for the crowd at home: this is called flouncing. It's what trolls (among others) do when they realize they can't win, either because they've talked themselves into a corner or their assumed prey won't play with them anymore. It's the "I'm gonna take my ball and go home, so don't you pretend you won just because you were six goals up on me" of internet argumentation.
Gee, that's a first. Nobody's ever mistaken me for a Christian before. Lol.
I think "defiantly worth listening to" is worth remembering for future debates. It's got a certain ring to it!
Why do you assume that I am not currently doing anything to make the world better? I am capable of both talking and acting, believe it or not.
Interesting example. Plastic waste is indeed a huge problem, and it's much harder to solve than merely giving up junk food; a lot of necessities come packaged in disposable plastics these days too.
BAWAHAHA!
FEISTY LADY!
Oh, I doubt that's the case. For all his faults, Tilan at least had panache.
