alt Hacker News> But what if someone steals your Amazon package off your front steps? Well, what if they do? I guess you would have to get a refund. I guess you might suffer an extremely minor inconvenience. I guess it could be an opportunity to reflect on the painful predations of poverty under capitalism, which creates economic desires, renders people unable to satisfy them, and then taunts them with constant visions of abundance in which they cannot share. True, it is a tragedy of unimaginably small proportions that someone has stolen your box of paper towels. Would you let them steal your optimism, as well?
This kind of rhetoric is counterproductive. Telling people that package thieves are just misunderstood, is going to get people to do the opposite of what you suggest.
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I believe the rhetoric is intentional; that the author had no plan to convert that audience from whom you will pry their ring doorbell out of their cold, dead hands.
Those people were going to do the opposite already. They are already doing the opposite. If you have some better rhetoric that will convince them otherwise then in all honesty I look forward to reading your blog post.