• frezik@midwest.social
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      I’m an enthusiast with no kids (and a vasectomy to make sure it stays that way) and I’ve driven both around a track. Glad to have done it once, but I’m not in any hurry to do it again. Wouldn’t buy either one over my Miata.

      Supercars are vastly overrated.

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      If he didn’t realize these things before making the purchase, it would seem like he falls qualifies for the idiot side with a sprinkle of luck.

      By chance was he able to afford it because of inheritance? Only a fool takes that kind of money to splurge on a vehicle and he would then fit exactly into the sot op laid out.

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          Yes. That’s why I made it. I use foresight and logic to deduce the mindset of the person involved in the timeline as you’ve described it.

          What you’ve said is a man with a wife and child who gather the resources to buy m a super car. It was only after he had purchased it that he realized it wasn’t a practical family car. This scenario does not contain an adult who is using logic and reasoning skills in a major luxury purchase.

          You are free to clarify or correct the timeline you described. Given that you choose to attack me instead, I am going to expand on the scenario by guessing this is someone you admire.

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        Normal mainly implies average.

        The average person has a spouse and a kid. So the statement is not wrong.

        Doesn’t mean you can’t have a normal life without a wife or a kid. It just doesn’t mean average then.

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          Doesn’t mean you can’t have a normal life without a wife or a kid. It just doesn’t mean average then.

          wait. so normal means average, or normal does not mean average?

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          Its a normative statement. It contributes to alienating people without wives or kids.

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              Perhaps I came off as too hostile. I read your comment and I thought it was potentially harmful and I’m incredibly depressed, so I wrote a hasty sniping response. I tend to think of things said as their effects in aggregate rather than the virtue of the person saying it.

              I’m also bi and arguably aromantic. And intend to remain childfree.

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          I consider it normative to suggest that such is “normal” and suggests not having a wife or kid(s) as “abnormal”. At least by implication.

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            Yeah, it’s rather normal to have a wife and progeny, most people do, that’s what normal means. You seem to be fishing for outrage, but you are missing that normal does not imply good, and not normal does not mean bad. Being astoundingly beautiful is not normal, but it’s commonly seen as positive.