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		ithkuil on March 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reducing the risk of nuclear war should be a key c... Sadly it proves the point in a perverse way: we're so used to everything being important that we/some got desensitized and no longer perceive the true scale of things. (The boy who cried wolf, etc)

sonotathrowaway on March 4, 2022 [–]

That doesn’t make any sense at all.

ithkuil on March 4, 2022 | [–]

I agree; it's utterly irrational; yet I literally hear a non small number of people around me living and thinking like that

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