Your internal model of human psychology is way off if you didn’t expect that to be offensive. (I mean that straightforwardly- I’m assuming you’re not neurotypical rather than malicious.) Asking people to retrospectively consider choosing the nonexistence of someone they love is a seriously different thing than, say, recommending birth control (and adopting rather than conceiving) for a couple with genetic incompatibilities. In the latter case they’re not losing a person they’ve loved and built their world around.
Asking people to retrospectively consider choosing the nonexistence of someone they love is a seriously different thing than, say, recommending birth control (and adopting rather than conceiving) for a couple with genetic incompatibilities.
May all memory of me be forever stricken from this simulation if I ever give someone the choice to send information back in time to their past self and rather than creating another alternate universe actually change their current situation. I have no information about Charles other than the first letter of his last name and the fact that his child requires therapy for something that may or may not be genetic.
When I apologized and said I didn’t mean it to be offensive, it was a less eloquent way of admitting my ignorance of his circumstances and trying to show regret for my previous comment made in haste. His situation is rather untenable from what I can glean from his past posts and I can only offer my hope that before his family needs cryonics our world has become normal.
That being said, I very much appreciate your advice on how to seem more neurotypical. I struggle with the appearance of maliciousness and its rare that I receive a direct critique.
A poor attempt at humor i see, It wasn’t meant to be offensive and i apologize if that’s how it seemed.
Your internal model of human psychology is way off if you didn’t expect that to be offensive. (I mean that straightforwardly- I’m assuming you’re not neurotypical rather than malicious.) Asking people to retrospectively consider choosing the nonexistence of someone they love is a seriously different thing than, say, recommending birth control (and adopting rather than conceiving) for a couple with genetic incompatibilities. In the latter case they’re not losing a person they’ve loved and built their world around.
May all memory of me be forever stricken from this simulation if I ever give someone the choice to send information back in time to their past self and rather than creating another alternate universe actually change their current situation. I have no information about Charles other than the first letter of his last name and the fact that his child requires therapy for something that may or may not be genetic.
When I apologized and said I didn’t mean it to be offensive, it was a less eloquent way of admitting my ignorance of his circumstances and trying to show regret for my previous comment made in haste. His situation is rather untenable from what I can glean from his past posts and I can only offer my hope that before his family needs cryonics our world has become normal.
That being said, I very much appreciate your advice on how to seem more neurotypical. I struggle with the appearance of maliciousness and its rare that I receive a direct critique.