• essell@lemmy.world
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    Yeah, totally.

    I laugh at my hayfever, through the sneezing and the coughing. My husband gets angry.

    So we have very different levels of “suffering” to the same experience.

    Good example, thanks.

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        I guess so. If you wanted to fake a reaction you could choose to, so the opposite must be true too, right? Choice happens at different levels, and most the choices we make happen at a level outside the conscious mind so quickly we wouldn’t register them as choices

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          1 day ago

          So I chose not to be allergic? Interesting! Why did you choose to be allergic? Are you stupid? Is it a fetish?

          Do you choose to die when you get shot?

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            Given that this has moved from discussing the topic to personal attacks, I’d say this conversation has run its course.

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              Sorry, too far?

              It ran its course when you said allergies are a choice. You’re literally telling me that you choose to be allergic, and that I choose to not be allergic. What the fuck do I say to that? So, I tried to highlight how alien and impossible to understand you are to me.