[QUOTE="CreasianDevaili"]Perhaps you do not know what they think as much as you say if you take what you said they said, when you asked them if they are happy as they are now, and apply it on a forum that you know three amputees who would take a billion dollars. You'd like to think you and your friends mindsets are complicated, but majority of the time they are not. The only thing that you've done, by your own account, is ask and get a answer if they are happy.
You used them in your retort to defend your opinion that a billion dollars for losing a limb is worth it because you know three people who have lost one are happy with how they are right now? After the fact and beyond the stage of denial? When they have accepted what it is?
You obviously havent asked them what the thread is about. So dont use them in your defense of your wacky logic. Just because they are happy right now does not equate to them doing it all over again for a billion dollars, before they are in the mindset they are in now. I wouldnt insult someone I call a friend in that manner.MrGeezer
Right. As opposed to you knowing someone who claims that they WOULDN'T take the deal, despite knowing that the topic in question is in regards to an IMPOSSIBLE SCENARIO.
Firstly, I never asked those people if they'd take a billion dollars in exchange for a limb, if they could do it all over again. Because that's a pretty freaking weird question to ask someone. I'm betting that you've probably never presented this question to an amputee either.
Secondly, if you were to find an amputee who wouldn't take the deal, then that is irrelevant since that person isn't getting offered a billion dollars. You can't state what they would do if this scenario were real, any more than I can.
It is a fantasy scenario which has never happened and is never going to happen. And in that sense, I can absolutely say "how can you not take the billion dollars?"
You were the one who brought this from the realm of casual impossible senario to telling someone that they were insulting people who lost a limb and got nothing in return, for them to say they wouldnt take the billion for a limb? I had zero issues with anything that you've said because we are all here just to converse. This was a casual thread. Then you took it into a more serious tone. So i took what you said, and I retorted. You brought people you know irl to try and stalemate and bolster your statements. I can only take what you say, and go with that. From this reply, it is certain that you bringing them into the exchange was absolutely not needed and served no purpose but for you and me to talk about your friends on a online forum.Dont attack someone's reply and tell them are insultive then feign possum when it comes full circle. I know someone who wouldnt take the deal. Myself. By your logic, I am insulting everyone who lost a limb and got nothing. Yeah, I got a problem with that, and if you truely believe that this is a impossible senario then there is NO WAY we could insult anyone.
My uncle had alot of vietnam friends, who lost limbs and some even what would call their sanity. The conversation about what those limbs were worth came up when one of them who wasnt in the war was going to lose his left leg from diabetes and not taking care of himself. They were trying to convince him to get help, before it was too late. Yeah, they have adapted, and they are proud that they have, but they were unified that if they had a choice, like the guy with diabetes, they would give anything to keep that leg. Specifically, one guy said he'd give everything he owned just to have his arm back.
Dont try and put some poster down for his answer to a question if you dont want to be confronted for what you said. Take care.
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