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Pope Francis has died

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916 points phillipharris | 1 comments | 21 Apr 25 08:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.339s | source
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CKMo ◴[21 Apr 25 08:58 UTC] No.43749746[source]▶
I genuinely liked him, even as an atheist. He seemed to be trying his best to make the world a better place and I can't fault him for that.
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libertine[dead post] ◴[21 Apr 25 11:04 UTC] No.43750520[source]▶
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code_for_monkey[dead post] ◴[21 Apr 25 11:09 UTC] No.43750560[source]▶
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thinkingtoilet ◴[21 Apr 25 13:34 UTC] No.43751860[source]▶
Where do you live? How much of your money and land are you willing to surrender to me? I think there's a real argument that it's the right thing to do.
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1. code_for_monkey ◴[21 Apr 25 13:46 UTC] No.43751971[source]▶
if you showed up to my house with a gun and said "give me your living room or die" I'd probably do it, yeah. See the thing is, youre not at my house and you dont have a gun so the analogy doesn't work.

You should do it. Show up to my house with 6 of your friends and a tank, and then when you say "give me your living room or die" and then when I point out "this is bad, you shouldnt do this" you'll just leave? You'll realize the errors of your ways and go "you know, I was ready to kill for this but now I think I just won't".

Lets take this even further, youre openly threatening to kill me for my house. If my neighbors are going "hold on! Don't give in! Heres a gun, you got this!" are they helping or are they getting me killed? Do you think thats whats going to happen, or do you think the neighbors are saying "this psycho is going to kill you, give them what they want".

It doesnt work.

edit: this got flagged? why? Its pretty benign