I know that's what you got, and I'm wondering where you got it from. How does my wife buying me a beer increase the risks for birth defects for the fetus she carries?
Damn, thought I laid it out quite nicely in short form.
It's a good thing in general to have a society that cares about whether a pregnant women is putting their baby at risk - and you simply can't have that without false positives. For every false positive making it a touch more awkward to purchase beer (the smallest price I can think of to pay) you get a ton of great things like general empathy. The society that cares that much probably also grabs a dead roach out of a strangers baby's hands right before it eats it unbeknownst to their parents, for example.
Your comment comes off as: How dare people care about an unborn baby having an entire life of misery if it ever-so-slightly infringes on my right to have a slight buzz for an afternoon.
Not saying you are one, but this is a great example of what my generation will pull "Ok boomer" out for: the general attitude of "Don't make my fun time ever-so-slightly more inconvenient just to preserve [society|the environment|anything that will last beyond their death]".
I understood exactly what you were saying, but felt no compunction to respond to your implied point because, basically, I thought you were being a dick.
And now I know why. Because you read my comment as uncharitably as possible, and because of that, now I'm a bad person in your eyes who needs to be shamed or scorned. I'm honestly surprised you didn't accuse me of beating my wife in a rage when she doesn't return with the single 12 oz can of of 4.5% beer that I requested.
And thanks for the lesson on gen-z slang. Out of curiosity, what are kids calling self-serious blowhards these days?
Showing people who degenerate culture why that is is empathy.
On a related note my generation confuses kindness with empathy way, way too often, it's a terrible millennial habit.
Anyone familiar with boomer memes knows being flippant towards having to care a bit more is a huge part of it. It's easy to understand.
They grew up with a booming economy, peace, less value towards preservation and externalities, greed is good, and an America-centric worldview… Millennials had multiple wars, two large recessions, two rounds of QE, and a small fraction of equivalent prosperity at the same age.
They got all the benefits of the boom and none of the downsides while the younger generations are paying. When you see a kid who was raised totally spoiled complaining “I don’t want to throw away my trash, the bins all the way over there” when you're working as a garbage-man you roll your eyes and say....
