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1103 points MaxLeiter | 2 comments | 04 Sep 25 05:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.007s | source
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alex-moon ◴[04 Sep 25 08:22 UTC] No.45124947[source]▶
I'm increasingly convinced that social isolation is the single great social ill of our time. I am not one for "respecting others' opinions" at all, make no mistakes, if someone believes something incorrect - or worse - then they need to be corrected. But so much of the hate simmering away like a pot about to boil over is the result of loneliness. The evidence on this is startingly clear.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235215462...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795362...

https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/hate-lies-and-loneliness-f...

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1. nonethewiser ◴[04 Sep 25 14:50 UTC] No.45127942[source]▶
>I am not one for "respecting others' opinions" at all, make no mistakes, if someone believes something incorrect - or worse - then they need to be corrected.

This seems wildly incompatible with the desire to not have social isolation.

I agree with the rest of your sentiment, but that is a really anti-social idea.

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2. SoftTalker ◴[04 Sep 25 15:33 UTC] No.45128428[source]▶
Also, what is "correct" today was not correct 50 years ago or might not be correct 50 years from now (just to pick some numbers, the time periods obviously vary). And so much of this is a product of when and where we were born and what we were taught growing up.