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[-] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

otherwise be harmless

Gonna have to disagree with you on that one.

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I'm not saying that everyone will psychopathic tendencies would be harmless; but definitely way less.

Let's put it this way, although I concede that it's not a perfect analogy: those stats about the risk of death increasing in a household after someone in it purchases a gun? Same deal. The father, the son, the daughter may think "I'm going to kill this mf one day!!" But that day never comes. Oh, but a gun is all of a sudden available? It's very easy, in those circumstances, for someone with those thoughts to just go get it a brandish it.

How about the reverse, when it actually is something positive? In my hometown in the late 90s, people started complaining that "so many gays invaded our city." Nope, "them gays" were always in the city, in the closet. Then a new message, spread through the internet, saying that it was okay to be gay. And people realized, "hey there's actually many more of us in our city. I'm not alone!" and they were emboldened to just come out of the closet. That's a positive situation, like I said.

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