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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

OK - back to LULZ, is it?

Nothing in my language is triggered or angry. You don't have to spend so much time trying to psychoanalyse me. Comment or don't comment. (Keep in mind that we don't actually know one another, which is perhaps for the best.)

No - not sensitive about politics. Why do you assume others are so emotional? Projecting?

What is NPC?

Again - no histrionics in anything I've written. (Just descriptions.)

Why would I want internet points? (Feel free to look at my comment history if you want to see how much I try to earn internet points.)

Where in my notes is there a "PC diatribe"?

It seems you only have insults here. I cannot locate in your response any real arguments or counterpoints against what I've written. You seem to be concerned only with me, rather than what's written.

(One of the reasons I am at Saidit is to see how intial debates will sometimes devolve into these obsessions with the other user, rather than continue the pyramid of debate. If you wish to return to the pyramid of debate, respond with an argument, rather than what you have here.)

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What is NPC?

Non Player Character. Originally from Dungeons and Dragons, and commonly used in video games.

As in they're not a real person, ya know. And it's easy to fall into that kind of thinking. To just assume Bob the gas station attendant just exists to sell you gas and doesn't have a meaningful existence outside that role.

It's a mentally unbalanced worldview and although I struggle with it myself, at least I know it's nuts.

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Thanks. One would think that one of the Redditors' problems that Saiditors would like to escape is the incessant comparison over there with games and cartoons. After the Digg invasion years ago (2010?), the majority of engagement on Reddit seemed to be at the age of 13. Everything was - and often still is - filtered through cultural infantilism. Shortly after 2010, /r/Politics was removed from /r/all, and one could see that as a sign of things to come - that the news aggregation site where one could discuss politics and world news would become a LULZ site (eg. what's now on /r/all). As for NPC, it makes no sense in a debate. Perhaps it's only meant to be an insult, an ad hominem, albeit unfounded for real-world discussions.

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It's far more serious than appearances. That's the kind of thinking of people like Stephen Craig Paddock have. I mean, the question is, how can you end so many people's lives casually, and the answer is he considered them NPCs.

It dehumanizes people.