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Comment by sol_remmy | Hacker News Reader

With that kind of thinking, why are you even posting here? Why do you allow yourself any leisure time when people in the world are starving?

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Because HN is a good distraction from that. Maybe I'm working on making it better and I haven't told you, or maybe I'm just a bum. Does it matter? It's a damn forum, we're all wasting time, that's the point?

I'm surprised how strongly people feel about that post.

You just said a whole bunch of people are lacking in empathy, and you're surprised people are reacting strongly?

Seems ironic.

I'm just surprised there is such a large contingent of hundred millionaire preppers and/or people who think they are going to live forever and don't see how that could be interpreted as lacking empathy, when there are (as the previous poster pointed out), people dying of starvation.

> With that kind of thinking, why are you even posting here? Why do you allow yourself any leisure time when people in the world are starving?

Indeed. I tell people all the time that poor/starving people should stop having children so that poverty or having to starve "dies out". I post here so that this message gets a much larger audience.

Yeah, that’s gonna work. If I was poor and starving, sex might be one of the only escapes I had.

> If I was poor and starving, sex might be one of the only escapes I had.

The only way in which sex helps you escape from poverty or starving is prostitution.

I would imagine that in most cases it offsets poverty and starvation rather than escape from it.

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