"You aren't afraid of a meteor falling from the sky and striking you in the head every time you go outside are you? Okay, so let me shoot this gun at you and stop being a big baby"
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As I was saying: I was not defending any particular trade-off point; merely pointing out that they exist.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @arthur_affect and
So you're just playing devil's advocate? Fucking why?
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Replying to @UnknownEnby @arthur_affect and
Because not only do I not know what the correct course of action is, I believe it's highly doubtful anyone does.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @UnknownEnby and
Everyone needs to get off his or her hobbyhorse of certainty and think, "What if we're all making a terrible mistake?"
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @UnknownEnby and
Nobody just imagined all those people drowning in their own mucus in the hospital Henry
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Replying to @arthur_affect @UnknownEnby and
@RayTski: the above tweet is one reason I don't think@arthur_affect makes the slightest effort to understand people who disagree with him2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HenryTarquin @arthur_affect and
What, because he's concerned with the real-world impact of decisions and doesn't treat everything as a vague intellectual exercise?
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Replying to @UnknownEnby @HenryTarquin and
I understand the POV of people who have this poorly understood mental model of "the economy" that exists entirely separately from the pandemic and can somehow be weighed apart from it I choose not to spend much time inhabiting that POV because it's odious
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Replying to @arthur_affect @UnknownEnby and
The idea of an economy entirely separate from the pandemic is the precise opposite of what I'm talking about—or your opponents generally.
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Okay so they're not two separate things, they're the same thing The worst "economic consequence" that the economy, which is made of human beings, can actually experience in the real world, is death
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