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Remove "drunk" from that tweet and the opposite point is made: why must we demand that a thing is all bad or all good?

Edit: not sure why this is being downvoted. I am not defending NFTs, just saying that a comparison to something clearly wrong like drunk driving needs to be established with more evidence than hyperlinking dril.

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All you're saying is that if you leave out a crucial word in the initial statement, the meaning changes. Fine, but so what?

That is a very uncharitable interpretation of my comment. Here is an explanation for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29281263

So are you defending drunk driving because it helps people get to work on time?

Not at all, they're suggesting that even clear benefits like driving have some negative outcomes. Whether NFTs/Crypto is more like driving (positives outweigh the negatives) or more like drunk driving (negatives outweigh the positives) is the question.

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