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This is so patronizing that it crosses into the general territory of personal attack and trolling, even though you probably didn't mean it that way. Can you please not post like this to HN? If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, we'd appreciate it.

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I apologise for that (it's too late for me to change my post). I never intended to imply that the world should work that way, or that disabled people, or OP in particular, are less human than others. I come from a different culture than you, so it is hard for me to understand exactly what I did that was wrong. Can you advise how you would phrase my idea in a less insulting way?

I think it's mostly that you led with the dismissive cliché "life isn't fair", as if the OP wouldn't know that far better than you or I do.

I agree that such interpretations are heavily mediated by culture, and it's clear from your follow-up that your intention was positive.

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