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Comment by StevenRayOrr | Hacker News Reader

> Happiness in slavery?

That's an absurd statement. Maybe your argument has merit, maybe it doesn't, but let's not suggest that our smartphones browsers are anything akin to slavery.

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It's an idiom from "Story of O". The comment was toward being happy under forceful limitation. But gosh, sometimes discussing things on HN feels like trying to talk about poetry with Vulcans. "ILLOGICAL, DIDN'T READ THE REST"

Speaking of talking about poetry with Vulcans, do you want to cite those bugs? I'm curious, because I've developed against Mobile Safari for years, and never actually had any particular difficulty; granted this has been mostly personal projects and little of it has entailed the use of bleeding-edge web technologies, but I'm still rather curious about this "antiquated, buggy monster" side of Safari that you seem to be seeing.

It's rather obvious (even if you're unfamiliar with the source) that he/she's not comparing browser choice to literal slavery of the user. The only absurdity here is your choice to take the most outrageous possible interpretation of his comment and then write a comment entirely focusing on this imaginary transgression.

No. It's the same hyperbolic and emotive language that is used in these discussions. It adds nothing and riles people up, which I'm going to guess is the desired result. The way it is delivered is basically pseudo-intellectual bullshit.

I suppose that's a fair point. My perspective on people getting unnecessarily riled up by the use of metaphor is usually that those people need to re-examine the level of maturity with which they're approaching the discussion. But to your point, the fact that it's someone else's "fault" doesn't change the fact that using language like that can provoke emotion that derails the conversation.

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