blueclover_.
Better Never to Have Been: 2006, David Benatar
- Oct 11, 2021
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Well, i said people, not referencing only to you, but the comments above similar to yours. You are one of the few people that were opposing OP, that's why i quoted your post. Doesn't mean that i placed other peoples responsibilities on your single comment.You DID speak specifically to me. You replied directly to my post and quoted it. That's why I replied to you in the first place. If you had an issue with someone else's post, it doesn't make any sense to quote my words and write under them that "people are going apeshit." I asked you to point out any part of my post that could fit that description, and you didn't.
Both the OP and I have been respectful and civil in our interactions back and forth with each other, and I think our discussion has helped clarify some really important parts of this post. I am not responsible for the words of some other random poster, and I shouldn't be lumped in with any bad behavior just because I discuss disagreements with OP in a civil manner.
Thank you for taking the time to respond, and for being so open and willing to discuss this. I think it's important to give the most accurate information we can in a post like this, since it can potentially effect people's major decisions about how they CTB, and your willingness to answer questions and make clarifications has helped that a great deal.
I do believe that you had no bad intentions at all in bringing up your history as a med student, and I understand that as part of an explanation for why you've come to the opinion you have, it makes sense to mention that. It's just also important to clarify the things you have in this reply post to me (you clearly state that you're not a doctor, you know there are no studies currently that back this up, etc.) I feel confident that anyone who reads these clarifications will understand that you're not saying you have any medical expertise in SN itself, rather you are referencing your overall medical knowledge about the body as an explanation for why you have come to your opinion.
I also appreciate that you don't delete the post, I think the discussions here are valuable. Whether or not 2g is the right amount to take for the average person, I am definitely unsure of, but with no reliable research published right now, we are valuable sources of information for each other. Without discussing it we only have our own minds to try and figure it out. You have definitely opened up some new ideas for me to consider. And far from failing, I think it takes a really mature person to accept criticism like you did, and to listen to and discuss my points even though we disagree on some things.
Hey, I can only speak one language, along with most of us English-as-a-first-language speakers, so from where I'm standing I have no place to judge!
In other words, i had an issue with people like you opposing OP. Then i took the opportunity to call out other people who were also opposing OP as 'going apeshit/mad', that was entirely separate from your post. This happens all the time on the internet, since it's much more convenient than to reply to each one of hundreds of comments of similar content.
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