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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you brave friend. I came here to say this.

I’m so fatigued by the sentiment behind this meme and so many others.

Ergh… there’s something intruding on my video game playing… what an inconvenience… boo hoo…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're infantilising disabled people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Compassion is a part of human nature.

I think that people who need to be cared for should be cared for.

I think that’s a different issue than the one presented in the meme.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is there a point of disability at which you no longer believe someone should be cared for? Like, say someone is colourblind and has no other conditions, do you think that person needs to earn their life?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So… let’s keep this in the context of the general population.

There seems to be a subset of perfectly well adjusted able bodied healthy adults that complain about anything that distracts them from video games.

I think that’s a problem.

How about you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, those are imaginary people you made up to complain about. And if you act on the existence of those fake people, you'll harm actual people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why am I getting the feeling that the only people you acknowledge as actual are disabled?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In case you’re worried: you deserve to be alive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's really hard to actually accept that as a capitalist's opinion. Liberals tend to say all kinds of nice things, and then turn around and pass policies that completely contradict that. Like, y'all say I deserve to live and then you don't implement a UBI. It's like you're lying to yourselves that you're actually nice people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I personally would support UBI.

Promise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Even knowing the lazy gamers you believe in would use it to play video games all day if they existed? Big if true.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do you feel gives a person the greatest feelings of true contentment, confidence, and achievement?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You mean at once? Heroin and cocaine. Over a lifetime? Good health, useful work, kind deeds, meaningful relationships, safety, self-determination, knowledge, and fun.