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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Genius. But i'm into poetry anyways.

[–]Aureus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I don't know about that. Consider heroes like Shavarsh Karapetyan, a champion swimmer who happened to be jogging by a lake when he saw a bus fall in and start to sink. He immediately dove into the water and managed to save 20 people.

Would the world really be "the same" if he hadn't been there, and those 20 people had drowned in the bus? I don't think so.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You just don't know me. Every Armenian is my friend and automatically a friend of all my friends.

I always feel sorry for souls drowning. Because i don't, no matter how hard i tried.

It is just not possible for me to drown, let me assure you of that.

Not even with a bunch of https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Drug s or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine in my head.

I know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin s , do you ?

[–]goobandit 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I can have another you by tomorrow so don't you ever for a second get to thinking you're [indispensible]. — also Saxon White Kessinger

[–]Dragonerne 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I disagree.

You are loved and you are important. There is no one worth more than you.

[–]Jesus-Christ[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

If there was an indispensable man that died, there would be calamity. The poem might sound sad or depressing but it's pretty liberating in my opinion, it's not saying we aren't irreplaceable. Just indispensable. There would be people (family members, close friends, etc) that would miss us when we die, and we can each make a difference and leave a legacy. But that's not to say that the world wouldn't be able to function without us. Too many people say yes to things they don’t want to do out of egoistical worry that that others will simply not be able to function without them. If there was truly an indispensable man, then the fate of civilisation would be fucked.

[–]Aureus 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I don't 100% agree with your later sentences, but I totally agree that this poem is wrong. The poem basically says human life has no value.

[–]Dragonerne 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

My last sentence is not saying that you are better than everyone else, just that no one is worth more than you :)

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah that's nice and clearly intended to be sexist, but it's really not true. Governments have collapsed with the death of their leaders, companies have collapsed with the death of their founder, even departments collapse with the retirement of that one guy with a lifetime of irreplaceable knowledge.

To put it in terms of this stupid woman's diatribe, if you take your hand out of the water, the water level falls, and it may never get as high again.