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minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down6·edit-21 day ago The world is better with you here I can’t imagine any 100lb bag of rice being worse off because one grain is missing.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 hours agoYou’re not the only one, though.
minus-squareirmoz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 hours agoThat analogy would work if people were genuinely as identical, thoughtless and replaceable as grains of rice.
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down3·1 day agoGrains of rice don’t live, don’t love, don’t build relationships and societies with each other. People do. Take your ice cream koan elsewhere.
I can’t imagine any 100lb bag of rice being worse off because one grain is missing.
You’re not the only one, though.
That analogy would work if people were genuinely as identical, thoughtless and replaceable as grains of rice.
Grains of rice don’t live, don’t love, don’t build relationships and societies with each other. People do.
Take your ice cream koan elsewhere.