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BeetleBtoday at 12:16 AM1 replyview on HN

> Exactly, you don't know my background, so don't lecture me. Your lecturing comes across as very condescending and, well, privileged.

1. I definitely am privileged.

2. Have you looked in a mirror?

3. You don't need to, as you yourself said: "And that's OK, clearly TFA is aimed at privileged people like us, not most people."

The only thing I have left to say is: Try not to confuse obligations with choices.


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the_aftoday at 1:15 AM

> I definitely am privileged

It shows! And condescending too, I'd add.

> The only thing I have left to say is: Try not to confuse obligations with choices.

That is meaningless, though doubtless it seems very deep to you.

Look, you made the bizarre argument people always have choices because feeding your kids is a choice. In whatever alien world you live in that might be a clever argument. Meanwhile, in the real world...