Global conflicts, famines, droughts, authoritarian governments, desertification, high unemployment, low salaries…

Our problems are not unique. Every single generation had their own version of the same life problems.

I respect your position but I do not subscribe it.

Have a nice one. Good to hear from you.

You do you. Have a nice day.

Opinions vary.

My parents faced the same doubts, as their parents did and so on. As I did.

Our problems are not new. We are not special or unique.

Is my poor domain of the english language that is most concerning to you? I’ll be losing my sleep, tonight.

I’m bothered with all the people abusing her consent.

That’s doomerism.

Start by your own privacy.

I boarded that train about twenty years ago. I tried the evangelizing route. I failed miserably. Which led me to care for myself first and foremost.

I started by abandoning Windows. Not of my own volition; I bought a computer that had no OS. Enter Linux. None of my family, friends or acquaintances understood. It was all about the convinience. When my machines started outperforming while outliving theirs, it caused a ripple.

Then came the usual slew of questions: where can I get a free anti-virus, office, media reader, whatever? That was when I introduced FOSS. After the initial resistance, things just settled into place. LibreOffice works. VLC works. PeaZip works. Thunderbird works. Etc.

When smartphones became a thing, I started moving as fast as I could towards FOSS. This made things a bit more laughable as “free” android applications are ubiquous. But they fill your phone with junk and ads. While my apps provided me ease of use, safety, security and privacy.

But when push came to shove, I just refused to join. First I left FBMessenger. I never boarded Whatsapp. I never entered Instagram or any major social networks. I discovered Signal and remained there.

It’s my way or no way.

Very well.

Let’s have all those people go back to the basic jobs: farming, hospitality, house cleaning, call centers, waste water management, garbage collection, recycling separation, etc, and see if they are willing to do it.

Then we can have a proper conversation.

Try giving people the means to live a dignified life, with proper housing and food security, and wait a while.

The population won’t boom but people will be more at ease to consider having children.

Most even want to have children. Unfortunately, they can’t because they have a consciousness.

That would be the plot and film of the age.

To my knowledge, there is none. But it should.

I agree on how you explained your point, although I disagree with it. Healthy disagreements help clarifying points of view.

Removing someone’s right to run for elections only on the basis of contesting a result is excessive. I’m in favour of cutting funds and putting heavy fines on such actors. And not after a lenghty court run: as an administrative punitive action, something already prescribed by law.

I’m not advocating for generalized violence. My original remark wasn’t about that.

I’m not pointing fingers at the woman.

What I am trying to convey is that the men taking part in whatever that was never stopped to consider they were enabling and enacting harm on another human being.

And that could be prevented, if any person could recognize the wrong in the situation. Something which, apparently, missed everyone.

Yes. Undemocratic forces use democracy to dismantle it. We need to really explore what democracy is actually about if we want to keep it.

Agreed.

If I’m in any kind of relatinship and I challenge the other party on a whim without any evidence, that relationship will take severe damage.

I understand your point but it is not a good equivalence. This isn’t about a relationship; that implies, at the very least, the smallest of slivers of respect. This isn’t the case.

Currently, we keep discussing matters without context which makes it easy to shortchange the public due to their limited imagination.

As it is, what is being constantly brought in front of the public eye is not to generate discussion; it is about generating disagreement. But this is the modus operandi of politics at large. It is easier to provide distractions and scape goats than create, explain and put in place real solutions for concrete problems.

If you use democracy witbout faith, you dont have democracy. You have cold war.

Exploitation of democratic system is solely for its own dismantling. It’s not a cold war. Bullets may not be flying (yet) but the war is there.

I would go further. If a party would show a pattern of asking questions solely based on ethnicity of people (current strategy of the german fascist party) they should be excluded from government. Also, a party that is deemed fascist should be excluded by default and have to prove that thats not the case instead of the other way round.

If a constitution doesn’t have the necessary safeguards to defend itself of hostility, it is lacking. If it has but they are not enforced by courts, it’s disinformation to the public and indiference from the courts.

Fascism is not an opinion. It is not compatible with democracy and needs to be eradicated with force.

Authoritarianism is as old as humans. Most people still revere the leader image. It is extremely hard to be fully responsible of one’s one actions. So it is easy to fall prey of charismatic figures and easy to follow speech.

Just because it’s legal, doesn’t make correct.

The same way, many of the dangerous and/or disgusting things some individuals are into are considered a disturb.

Following that, and remembering the spirit of my original reply, that by now has been removed, I would strongly - very strongly - disincentivize any friend or acquaintance if they told me they considered either taking part or were indifferent to the outcome of such a stunt. It would be one of those friendship ending situation.

This is a calous indiference to human suffering and an easily preventable and avoidable one. And exploitation of it. Which is extremely sad. It is a telling sign of the times we live in.

I am. And the very sad conclusion I’m forced to draw is that most people don’t care enough about others to prevent unnecessary and easily preventable suffering.

Like the case at hand.

The woman ended in a hospital. Maybe - just maybe! - the men participating in the stunt should had stopped for a fraction of a second to think if they were enabling and causing unnecessary suffering.

Maybe.

I might be wrong.

It is, isn’t?

Let me concern about the outcome of my actions.

Fight malaria when you can!

You can challenge results based solely on the request of having ballots recounted. You want to go that far?