• Jax@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    It is a sentiment that treats potential loss of life like rounding errors instead of tragedies (big and small).

    Tolkien’s words live in my brain

    If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

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      Yah there people in here, on Lemmy of all places, making the argument for the stability of businesses.

      I feel the effort we put into the smallest acts of kindness is a much better measure of who and what we are as a species.

      I’m sure some of the folks responding in here may be on the spectrum or failing to express their arguments and reasoning in a neurotypical way, but for the rest, I hope they actually never learn what it feels like to be the entity depending on someone or something to save them for no reward to themselves. It’s a rotten, hopeless feeling and the callousness that people embrace to justify allowing others to experience that, well that’s a state that spreads quickly through our society when we allow it to fester. Always push back on heartlessness.