alt Hacker NewsI feel that fatalism, especially when people treat it as some sort of personal philosophy, is kind of lazy.
It requires no effort to say "fuck this, nothing matters anyway", and then justify doing literally nothing.
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Nevermark • yesterday at 6:21 PM
Apathy has a striking number of motivated evangelists!
gspr • yesterday at 7:13 PM
It also makes no sense! "Fuck this, it doesn't matter - but I'll happily spend effort communicating that to others, because apparently making others not care about something I don't care about is something I do care about." Wut?!
Well, I say it makes no sense. Alternatively, it makes a lot of sense, and these people actually just wanna destroy everything we hold dear :-(
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joquarky • yesterday at 7:52 PM
This is more cultural rather than rational.
> I feel that fatalism, especially when people treat it as some sort of personal philosophy, is kind of lazy.
I think a lot of fatalism is fake. It's really someone saying "I like this, and I want you to believe you can't change it so you give up."