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minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down6·edit-21 month ago The world is better with you here I can’t imagine any 100lb bag of rice being worse off because one grain is missing.
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down3·1 month agoGrains of rice don’t live, don’t love, don’t build relationships and societies with each other. People do. Take your ice cream koan elsewhere.
minus-squareirmoz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThat analogy would work if people were genuinely as identical, thoughtless and replaceable as grains of rice.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoYou’re not the only one, though.
minus-squareUltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoIt’s your life, but you cant predict the future. Maybe there is a chance things work out and you get to a better place in life?
I can’t imagine any 100lb bag of rice being worse off because one grain is missing.
Grains of rice don’t live, don’t love, don’t build relationships and societies with each other. People do.
Take your ice cream koan elsewhere.
That analogy would work if people were genuinely as identical, thoughtless and replaceable as grains of rice.
You’re not the only one, though.
It’s your life, but you cant predict the future. Maybe there is a chance things work out and you get to a better place in life?