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carlosjobim • yesterday at 3:47 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

If everybody were killed by spiders, would you talk about "the ills of arachnophobia"?

But when everybody were killed by invading foreigners, you talk about "the ills of xenophobia"??


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tomrod • yesterday at 4:04 PM

When was the last time everyone was killed by invading foreigners? Turkey's Armenian genocide? Rwanda? Genuine recent tragedies that, by our mutual acknowledgment that they are tragedies, shows that the norm is no longer acceptable.

It is rational to fear needles in the wilds of a back alleyway. Not so rational when we are in a doctor's office.

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