Agreed. What world are people living in when they present payment links on an insecure page in 2018? Um, no dude. I'm not going to click on your link now, nor will I ever. Byyye.
Hey, I use inspect! I've run untrusted code every computing day of my life, so I guess that makes me a script kiddie. My advice, keep on script kiddie'ing, because it will definitely pay off.
I'd like to add though that I disagree with the parent comment about privilege putting people ahead in the moral sense. I believe that some of the most compassionate people have grown that way through hardship.
> I believe that some of the most compassionate people have grown that way through hardship
This is very true, and all of the most dedicated physicians I know were inspired as children to pursue medicine because of some situation they were involved in involving the health of a loved one (or their own health).
> putting people ahead in the moral sense
Compassion is not the only relevant aspect of morality. The way I'd argue my point is that one of the big reasons we can all sit back and think about how to make the world a better place is because our basic needs are met. Over time, as humanity has overcome basic scarcity and basic fear, we have been able to look outward and prioritize things like making the world better for others.
Someone who is privileged is more likely to have had an excellent teacher explain the labor movement or the holocaust, and is more likely to have vacationed to places where other ways of life (including far subpar standard of living) can be observed, or even gone on a humanitarian school-cation to help people in need. Experiences like this help to break a person out of his/her safe little world and help create an understanding of broader issues, problems, and opportunities.
Meanwhile, the middle class kid's family got a nice new TV allowing a great view of music videos and action films.
This is not about blame or credit. A person alive in 2017 America is more likely to think slavery abhorrent than a person alive in 1830 America. This isn't because there is something superior about modern people, it's because economic prosperity offers the luxury of thinking about others more empathetically.
There are always outliers, people who are morally ahead of their time or unusual for their class. Nothing about my argument in this thread applies to them. I'm talking about the average person.
Thus the average privileged person is simply ahead at the age of 18 relative to those from more humble backgrounds or from decades past.
What scares me most is the large percentage of Harvard and Stanford grads who go into investment banking and similar careers. Those are fine choices for someone whose goal is to "level up" his/her family's wealth status in a single generation, but they are not the sorts of careers chosen by people who had the chance to develop moral clarity and self-actualization early on. It suggests a great deal of cynicism or timidness that should really not be the result of the best education in the world.
While you have correctly identified a trait of those who graze the autistic spectrum, you also appear to have discounted the possibility of being able to ignore social pressure otherwise. I think you are kind of proving the point of the person you are responding to. To me it came off as if the comment made you uncomfortable, and you responded in a way that is, in my opinion, short-sighted. I believe what he meant is that often times with privilege, people don’t feel the need to defend a certain viewpoint - because they aren’t negatively affected by it.
Disclaimer: I grew up poor as dirt in a house of 7 children, so I’m definitely not speaking from experience as far as being privileged goes. I never graduated college, I just read regular old books. I do have a younger brother who struggles with a slight case of autism though, and he has no interest in computers whatsoever. In fact his life is somewhat in shambles. Also, the term “asperger’s” has been deprecated.
Huh. Family with a history of ADHD. My father, me, son. Medication for my son makes an unbelievable difference. For me with a moderate therapeutic dose, huge difference as an adult. Took meds in school as well. Dad, ended up addicted to meth and alcohol and never did much with his life. They didn't know about ADHD when he was young.
The difference in knowing the enemy and practicing against it is a big deal. To get ADHD meds as an adult I had to spend a lot of time with a psychiatrist and I did machine based testing that is very difficult to fake. Some doctors don't care and just write scripts. It is increasingly risky for doctors to do so though, so most refer you to a psych first.
I will note, at the low to moderate therapeutic doses I use (often skipping several days) it is far from some sort of epidemic of abuse like what the author portrayed. And honestly, even if you don't have ADHD, so, what. It is safer than meth. Alcohol is way, way worse than therapeutic doses of amphetamines. (Therapeutic means relatively low and controlled dosing)
I think I would honestly rather see amphetamines a little overprescribed than have true ADHD sufferers go without treatment. Of all the drugs psychiatrist prescribe, amphetamines for ADHD sufferers have the largest observable therapeutic effect, bar none. We aren't talking just among ADHD. Of all mental illness amphetamines for ADHD sufferers produces a huge clinical effect unlike any other drugs like anti depressants. For those of us that it really helps it is not a game. This article read like scaremongering with no real talk of the actual impact of prescription amphetamine use and abuse. There is no real data to back it up. There is no doubt most people who think they ha e ADHD as an adult don't have it, but at the same time there is no evidence presented that 1.) It is causing harm at any scale and 2.) How overdiagnosed it actually is, but by god we need to do something about this amphetamines...
Kids addicted alcohol in college probably don't graduate. Kids scrounging a few addy probably just write the most interesting papers about neoclassical bullshit the history of humanity ever witnessed.
Edit: Just want to add that people with ADHD are hugely overrepresented within alcoholics and drug abusers. When we don't get the advice and help we need many self medicate. ADHD is a mental illness, just like depression, and other mental illnesses. With addictive personalities being common among ADHD suffered due to how our brains manage dopamine, it is no surprise. It is a huge waste of human potential.
Thank you for sharing. I know the general problem with depression is not directly how the brain manages it's dopamine, but a lot is not understood about depression. Like ADHD it is a cluster of underlying causes that manifest in a similar manner. If your brain has trouble releasing dopamine, amphetamines are going to help. ADHD brains just don't let go of their dopamine effectively. Amphetamine stimulants come in and hit the dopamine stores with a jackhammer. The net result is that mundane stuff becomes more pleasurable. It actually does far less for people who don't have ADHD, but it obviously had an effect. Also, we don't really know what the long term effects are. I suspect if you exercise regularly and cycle on and off to ensure no dependency the side effects are low. We have good reason to suspect this with some folks using Dextroamphetamine (Adderall) and Methylphenidate (Ritalin) for 10-20+ years with no large side effects observed.
Agreed. No child should ever go hungry. We also need more public awareness / education about making healthy decisions when it comes to purchasing food.
