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You need a punch to your face -- reading books isn't going to help.

My advice to you: don't try to prepare. You'd have to kill and overcome the man you are now. You don't need to be Rambo. You can be the bloated corpse floating in the pond just as well. The universe won't care if you extended your life for a few measly years. Relax, watch some TV and drink some soda pop. Contine tuning out reality as you've been doing your whole life.

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This is probably the meanest thing I've ever read on HN.

What's mean about it? Do you think the potential war he wishes to prepare for is more or less uncomfortable than this comment?

I think the "you need a punch to your face", taken out of context, reads like "I want to" do that. I think you were making a different point than that, but it wasn't clear. The burden is on the commenter to disambiguate such things, because otherwise the default interpretation is going to take over the thread. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... for past posts on this point.

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Yeah, I meant it in the sense of "You need to experience violent situations in order to prepare for a violent environment." Furthermore, by "tuning out reality," I meant "ignoring the violent undercurrent of all human affairs by escaping into domestic tranquility."

Hope that clears things up.

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