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I had to resist the urge to break into uncontrollable laughter when you compared living in your car to saving a baby from a burning building. Since this is a throwaway I strongly suspect you are your own cheerleader. Let me see if I can take you down a peg. A man who chooses to live in his own car instead of taking a servile job is presumably still in need of food to sustain him. You are basically glorifying living o…
> I had to resist the urge to break into uncontrollable laughter Please don't comment like this here, even when another comment seems outrageous. It just makes the thread even worse and breaks HN's civility rule.
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Peoples situation changes in ways that can be hard to predict. People die. People get sick. People get divorced. Peoples family members become ill. People run into expensive legal issues. People have unplanned pregnancies and aren't willing to abort. Most of the US isn't in financial position to weather more than temporary hardship without shit falling apart. Other countries deal with this by providing a safety net p…
Imagine the kind of world we would live in today, if every form of self restraint was written off on the basis of biological imperative. Would you want to live in that world? Truly, how dare I advocate for personal responsibility when it comes to perhaps the single handed most powerful decision any person has - to bring an innocent life into the world. How dare I even suggest that we hold each other to a higher stand…
When better than half your population has a small but non trivial chance of ending up in the gutter something is wrong.
The people that are hard up are people who differ from those who are getting by only small sets of circumstances.
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Sure, but it's being used as an example of something that exists, which for the vast, vast majority of the US, doesn't. My mistake here was forgetting the echo chamber that is HN. There is a world outside SV, but it doesn't really matter.
People on HN are interesting in things that affect their lives. Curse them! I mean, really, come on.
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Yeah, no true Scotsman ends up losing first-mover advantage.
It's not no true scotsman though. Google search was very different to what came before it. The only similarity was the UI.
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Imagine the kind of world we would live in today, if every form of self restraint was written off on the basis of biological imperative. Would you want to live in that world? Truly, how dare I advocate for personal responsibility when it comes to perhaps the single handed most powerful decision any person has - to bring an innocent life into the world. How dare I even suggest that we hold each other to a higher stand…
Ordinary people that work for a living ought to be able to have kids. As stated in nations with more sane safety nets not being upper middle class isn't synonymous with being financially and socially unstable. When better than half your population has a small but non trivial chance of ending up in the gutter something is wrong. The people that are hard up are people who differ from those who are getting by only small…
That however does not remove personal responsibility from the equation, and it appears this is where you and I differ. I believe that bringing another human being into the world is a decision that should not be made hastily. It's one of the rare decisions in life, where every ounce of forethought and planning should be utilized. That is another HUMAN you are choosing to invoke, so you had best be sure you can care for that human and provide them a great shot at a happy life. Sadly, working for minimum wage as a waitress at Denny's probably isn't going to cut it.
Not surprisingly, I'm a strong proponent of things like raising the minimum wage, and universal health care. While I believe in personal responsibility as a fundamental value, I also believe your society should provide safety nets and support systems, to assure that everyone has a shot at raising a family, and being happy.