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Originally Posted by Jay Random
That's not what I said either, but hey, lie away if that's the only way you get to feel self-righteous.
He's still able to play professional hockey. He's receiving the best care available. He's alive.
His life has not been destroyed. When I used that term, I meant it LITERALLY, as in DEAD.
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I’m not sure if this is just a situation where people don’t understand social cues and how conversation generally works and everything, but the majority of people in any conversation would take “I know people in way worse situations, those are the people I have the most sympathy for” as dismissive or an attempt to de-value what someone is going through.
It’s not the trauma olympics. I’m sure a lot of people know someone who has been in a worse situation or gone through a worse situation themselves (the fact that people who have, have spoken up about how much they dislike a lot of the commentary here should be a pretty big signal for people).
Unless you’re bringing it up to explain why you have a lot of empathy/sympathy for this situation, it’s probably not worth brining up. Everybody knows what people are doing when they point out people who have it worse and who they have sympathy for (that isn’t Kylington). We don’t have to pretend this is the first time we’ve all been in social situations and nobody knows what these things mean.