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by mcphage 2057 days ago
> Maybe we’ve just become a little too uncomfortable with our own mortality.

Maybe we’ve just become a little too uncomfortable with being inconvenienced.

> Life is a bitch and then you die. Get over it.

And yet here you are complaining about not being able to throw a party. Maybe you ought to take your own advice to heart here.

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It’s not inconvenience. Millions of people’s lives are on hold. This is awful for our happiness, our culture, our productivity. Children are kept home behind a computer screen, or even worse, sent to schools that have become more controlled and joyless than prisons, screamed at for playing with their friends. This is evil.
I really hope this generation is never asked for actual sacrifice. People who lost their jobs are the ones who have it really bad right now. For everyone else, it's an inconvenience. Using words like 'evil' and 'joyless prisons' shows a complete lack of perspective.
> This is awful for our happiness, our culture, our productivity.

Maybe, but I don’t think I can respond better than what someone already said: "Life is a bitch and then you die. Get over it."