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user3939382today at 11:24 AM1 replyview on HN

Yeah kind of ironic to make a comment about controlling your emotions while cursing at a stranger because you disagreed with their reasonable perspective.


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fauigerzigerktoday at 12:09 PM

You are assuming that hinkley intended to control their emotions and that cursing wasn't just a rhetorical thing in this instance.

There clearly is a link between words and emotions. But this link - and even more so the link between emotions and actions - is very complex.

Too many fears are based on the assumption of a rather more reductionist and mechanistic sort of link where no one has any control over anything. That's not realistic and our legal system contradicts this assumption.

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