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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Look at me I am angry someone called me out, I will use curse words and tell them to get out.

I wasn't telling you to literally get out of the topic. I was telling you to stuff that kind of talk.

I took this out of my response because I thought I was getting too emotionally charged but if you're seriously going to come in here and try to condescendingly taunt at me out of some unearned sense of moral superiority, I guess I'll bring it back because I am over my emotional limit now and while I can already feel the regret surging within me that had prompted me to remove it in the first place for so many reasons I just don't care anymore.

I have suffered from depression and anxiety for over half my life. I have had no hope in my life since I was in middle school. I have watched the world, in my view, head down a path in which I think it's honestly inevitable that we'll see an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the not too distant future. Climate change the major actor there of course, but politically it's fallen off a damn cliff since 2016 as we see other autocrats emulate Trump around the world and erode democratic norms.

Given all that it would be all too easy for me to just give up because "Fuck it. Why bother?" But I have tried my best to refuse that selfish impulse all these years and try to figure out what I think is the best path forward for everyone else, everyone else who isn't as fundamentally broken as I am, who actually have hope and reason and meaning in their lives. Because that's still something I can do here. It might be the only act of significance, as small as it may ultimately be, that I can do. So that's why I try to figure out what I think that path is and how to best achieve it.

So to hear you state with this smug sense of certainty that "civility is more important to you than people dying. It just is" just makes me see red. I almost loop around to laughter because if I were treated as such a sentiment played straight deserved it would still be dwarfed by my own disgust with myself. I don't know what has caused you to be possessed of this surety but you're utterly wrong. I don't think your approach to achieving what I assume are many shared policy goals is the best way to get there. I don't even think it's the shortest but that's a slightly different argument.

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