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Comment by bell-cot

3 months ago

While clicky and topical, people were losing loved ones to changed worldview and addictions back when those were stuff like following a weird carpenter's kid around the Levant, or hopping on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_Craze bandwagon.

Yeah, why on earth discuss current social ills when there have been different social ills in the past...

  • If you were hit and badly injured by brand-new model of car, where would you want the ambulance to take you?

    - the dealership that sold that car, where they know all about it

    - a hospital emergency room, where they have a lot of experience with patients injured by other, different models of car

    I'm thinking that the age-old commonality on the human side matters far more than the transient details on the obsession/addiction side.

    • Your comment above reads more like, let's not even discuss the fact that new models of cars are killing pedestrians in greater numbers than before, since pedestrians have always been killed by cars.

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