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If I'm out of my home for a day my cat comes running to the door meowing when I return. Then he paces around for a while, but if I sit on the couch he'll join me.

The entirety of conservatism is "there must be in groups for laws to protect but not bind, and out groups for laws to bind but not protect". That's pretty much it. Everything else follows from that. Facts don't matter. Consistency doesn't matter. They are shitty people. Cartoon villains

On the one hand, it's fun to fuck with players. "So you enter the room? Cross the threshold of your own free will? Ok who's wearing metal?" when none of that matters, but you write it down anyway.

On the other, sometimes I've had to be like "ok guys seriously there's no traps here. Put away the ten foot pole and chickens let's just move along"

It's not equating it with Auschwitz! You said, quote, There is no line in finding a job. No line! That's a bold claim! So I picked a very extreme example to demonstrate that there, hopefully, is a line. It's not equating AI to Auschwitz. It's saying that your claim, that there is no line and you should work any job for money, is false. Once we establish that, we can then go into details about AI and where that falls. Please. Please understand how this line of reasoning works. We weren't even talking about AI specifically yet in this sub-thread.

Your entire group’s reaction to my post was one of attack and derision, so I am well aware of where you all stand wrt to empathy.

This is funny because your opening here was calling us idiots in an echo chamber.

That wasn't the argument nor the question. The question is where do you draw the line. I gave an extreme example I assumed is on the far side of your line. Once we have that, we can do like a binary search and try to find it. Come on, man.

A crowd of hundreds blocking a bridge is. People blocking entrances to government buildings is. People surrounding bases is. People flooding the capitol or disrupting the discourse of policy is. The reason they use the military and ICE is because they are terrified that people will remember that even 1% of the US doing this far outnumbers them.

The absolute whining from people when they are moderately inconvenienced is depressing. "Sure, death camps are bad but did they have to block the bridge? I'm going to be late for my brunch!" Well, the person in a camp is going to be late for stuff, too.

Usually when I see traffic, I'm on the train looking out the windows feeling very smug

There is no line in finding a job, it’s an existential need

There is no line? Absolutely nothing? You would work at an Auschwitz styled concentration camp for food money?

True. I just had a long discussion with a former coworker about that yesterday. I don't buy the whole "people who go to college aren't smart. the salt of the earth really know how the world works" that comes up sometimes.

Most people aren't that bright. Even people who are experts in one field or another.

But more than that, most people don't care about things. They don't know how platforms work, and they don't care. Just picture a boundless void where things fall in- that's the typical user apathy.

So anything, no matter how foolish or evil, is acceptable so long as "the market" desires it? Complaining about it makes you a dumbass?

Or are there things that should be pushed back on? What is the line?

Also, is it "sheer stubbornness" is a collection of concerns and objections grounded in facts and experience?

I think some people will reject criticism by calling someone a hater. Like, if you point out legitimate concerns about their favorite game or movie they'll say "you're just a hater" so they don't have to do the emotionally challenging work of considering flaws in their favored things.

We're all emotional creatures and things like the backfire effect affect us all, but some people seem exclusively emotion driven