• JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    With respect, don’t tell me what I need based on what you need.

    I don’t need to see a thing to have an emotional reaction to it. I am not a child lacking object permanence.

    Being able to watch a dozen different angles of a person’s death in high definition isn’t necessary for everybody. Most murders have no footage, and empathy can still be experienced for them. Surely you also run the emotional gambit when you read of a school shooting, whether or not there is footage of the carnage, don’t you?

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      With respect, don’t tell me what I need based on what you need

      You don’t understand any of this, but if you were polite and asked questions I would have explained it and you’d have walked away from this with more knowledge than you had now.

      Think about who really lost in this exchange

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        20 hours ago

        Who really lost? You perceive this back and forth as something that can be won or lost? Both you and I are arguing semantics from behind screens, not out risking our life and limb. There are no winners here.