(November 12, 2016 at 12:20 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: He did. He'd apologized to me for possibly triggering me (he hadn't), and said he'd edit it, though that wasn't a request of mine.
Point being, I think he was trying to be thoughtful.
It's no secret that we've had bad blood between us, but in this particular instance, I think he's trying to be nice.
If his intention was good, that's fine.
Still, it's pretty naive to think that alcoholics, whose drug of choice is openly for sale in stores and widely advertised on television, are going to need a trigger warning for a video of someone sipping on some vodka every once in a while. I could see it being needed if he was shooting oxy or something, but this just seems uninformed, which is strange for someone that acts like they know everything.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
