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Comment by ChuckMcM | Hacker News Reader

My Dad once said, the world would be a better place if drugs and alcohol only killed people we didn't care about. Sadly the world is not like that.

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That's a horrendous sentiment.

I suspect it was offered as a dark koan, not an earnest wish.

Exactly, it was a sad day when he had lost a friend at the hands of a driver under the influence.

I suppose that depends on how many people one cares about.

Sorry for the comment. My Dad had just lost a good friend, he was sad, he was angry, he was sharing his pain of losing someone he cared about due to an entirely preventable cause. I feel the same way when ever someone I care about takes their own life, either explicitly like Aaron did, or implicitly like Barnaby Jack did. It hurts.

There'd be a lot fewer minorities if that was the case.

What the F^^^ kind of reply is that? Really a disappointment this filth can leak into here.

Quite handy that you're using your real name, real company and real account to post such an insane comment. Now we can all know who to avoid.

Are you sure it's meant as a serious statement? I took it as an observation on the sad state of the world we live in (i.e. the general apathy of people toward those unlike themselves).

>There'd be a lot fewer minorities if that was the case.

Let's see you post that shit on your company facebook page and see what minorities looking for great apartments think.

https://www.facebook.com/Oikoi

Please see above for the context of my statement.

Can we please give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he intended to note that society doesn't allocate opportunity evenly across all demographics, even though it should.

Don't vote the comment up though - let it fall peacefully to the bottom of the pile where it belongs.

Agreed. I think his comment is being taken way out of context. Drop the pitchfork guys.

Yes, I feel like people didn't understand the point of my comment. I was pointing out that the OP's "ideal world" sounded pretty xenophobic when taken in context. Just because we don't care about someone doesn't mean it's irrelevant if they're killed.

your comment is probably just really shittily delivered wry commentary on the justice system, but...

logically, this doesn't follow. drugs already kill the people you don't care about (in your case, minorities, although i suspect you really mean hispanics and blacks, not "minorities").

the statement was about excepting the ones you DO care about (white people, in your case). so there would just be more white people, but no less "minorities".

Why do you think OP meant just race minorities? There are many other minorities possible, based on religion or even sexuality.

I'm not trying to defend the guy if he actually meant what people here seem to think he meant, but it's possible he was referring to how society ('we') doesn't care about minorities, rather than saying that he himself doesn't care about minorities.

To anyone attacking me, my comment was sarcastic and intended to point out the xenophobia inherent in the OPs statement. I wasn't saying that "I" thought minorities should be killed, I was dryly saying that the "ideal world" spoken about by the OP would be a horrible one in which many innocent people would die.

For that matter - what kind of terrible person would publicly go on Hacker News and say that they think minorities should die? Why would that be your first thought?

> what kind of terrible person would publicly go on Hacker News and say that they think minorities should die? Why would that be your first thought?

Are we reading the same HN?

I took your comment immediately to be what you intended, but how can you possibly act surprised at the comments here anymore? This isn't 2012's HN anymore.

I don't understand where the inherent xenophobia is in the original statement? I am not being a dick I am just interested in seeing what I am missing.

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