@DarrenWalker you seem to be ok with one thing but not the other. And not sure if you'll be ok with this or not but technically you shouldn't be but you seem to pick and choose one that suits you but...idk if you know this but people are not supposed to touch their masks but not all healthcare places are strict on this. Will this be ok for you or not? If not definitely something to add to the battle!
A battle to take down the bad healthcare but not take them down! Woohoo! Definitely will watch with full support from the side with popcorn if ok to eat without a mask on. I don't understand this conclusion in full but anything is possible..
@Amortentia: If by that you mean I'm okay with necessary risks but not unnecessary ones—yes. Yes, that's precisely it.
I don't think you should put people's lives in danger unless the risk is unavoidable (and even then, I think you should do the best you can to reduce the risk of harm).
Going in to work? An unavoidable risk.
Deliberately meeting a stranger outside work and swapping aerosols? Avoidable.
Don't take the risks you're comfortable with—take the ones you have to take in order to survive and/or help others to survive, and avoid all the others.
@DarrenWalker what? Going into work is avoidable actually. No one HAS to work. Even if some people force them sadly. So in that case it could be painful or deadly to avoid but even then it's still possible. I hope that doesn't exist anywhere though.
@Amortentia: ...If I didn't work, I wouldn't be able to pay rent. If I couldn't pay rent I'd be homeless. If I were homeless, alas, I'd die (such is the life of the disabled). What world do you live in where people don't have to work to live? I want to live there.
A risk is unavoidable if "avoiding" it means you die. Who avoids getting hit by a car via shooting themselves?
@Amortentia
"No one has to work."
Are you secretly a child posing as a healthcare worker for the glory? That's the only thing I can think of. Unless you live in a magical realm where your willingness to dribble nonsense, and your enthusiasm for being a martyr, pays the bills.
@DarrenWalker in reality. Do we not have people who refuse to work and are homeless? We do. Because it happens in the real world. It's not the wisest choice they make but they do it because work is still avoidable.
@Amortentia: ...Dude. Your argument was literally that no one has to work or else die.
Me. I am that supposed no one.
@DarkLordChungus I'm sorry you never met homeless people. They're everywhere here. It's just sad
@DarrenWalker yes correct. Homeless people don't have to work but they should because they'll die. So why don't they work? Is death better for them? Makes no sense to me.
Oh, so now you're cowering behind the homeless—for the purpose of making a "point" that was so nonsensical and thoughtless that a gurgling toddler could have made it.
It may not be hero pay, but if you want, I can send you a cheap mirror with "Moron" etched into the surface, as well as a $5 gift certificate to Chuck E. Cheese.
@DarkLordChungus stay on topic please if you try to butt in. I don't know why you're always starting something. You're not even in this conversation so stop butting in please. Rude. And keep your useless junk. You need it more than me since it's something you risked owning.
Which topic, exactly? You abandoned arguing your own points, switched to being a martyr, and are now trailing off on a tangent that is impressively vapid.
Plus with the pandemic some were not allowed to work either. So even though they wanted to they weren't allowed to. Avoidable or unavoidable?
@DarkLordChungus I didn't bring up having to work, Darren did. All I did was point to it being an opinion not a fact since not everyone works like homeless don't and there's also kids too and disabled people. Please focus on who starts something next time. This is plain silly.
Rent forgiveness is an awesome thing.
And look, @Amortentia: do you really not see the difference between a risk you have to take or else suffer, and a risk you decide to take because you think it'll be fun?
The maskless assholes who infected me wouldn't have died from masking up. Not going to the bar wouldn't have killed them.
But what they did could have killed me.
Think of others, is what I'm saying. Is putting the life of others above your own desires really so alien to you?
Ok folks... that's it for this thread. Perhaps it can be reopened at a later time.
Closed. 2021-06-03 4:53:12.02 ET
I will ask that @Amortentia and @DarrenWalker and @DarkLordChungus do not engage with each other on future threads. One personal attack further and it's 30 days timeout for starters. Thanks.
Everyone else: I'm not responding to further reports or flags on this thread. #sorrynotsorry