• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I understand it in an abstract way, it’s just hard for me to wrap my mind around more concretely because it’s just not a mode of thinking I can put myself in.

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      9 months ago

      That’s fine. People usually don’t. To recognize something in some way requires knowledge or experience. And we can neither know everything nor experience it.

      • OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Maybe they should, Data.

        Maybe if we felt any loss as keenly as we felt the death of one close to us, human history would be a lot less bloody.