• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        You’re full of great arguments. But I don’t think any of them top “you got preferences? That’s stupid”

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          No, I said something more like “if you make your preferences so limited that you discount 99.5% of your possibilities, you’re going to find yourself with very few options.” Which is, more or less, a truism.

          Sorry I hurt you.

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            The more common viewpoint which actually deserves criticism is “I was born here and that makes it the best place so I would never travel or live anywhere else. I prefer exactly one 200 mile radius, forever”.

            This viewpoint is very common in the “99.5%” of the world I’m “missing out on”

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              1 year ago

              ? Yes, I suppose that would deserve criticism. There are innumerable common viewpoints about all kinds of things that probably deserve criticism, but I don’t think we have the space or time to litigate them all here…again, this is a comment thread responding to the original post…

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            I have all of the preferences you criticize and that leaves me with… Several options… that I actually would want to live in. And shockingly , my preferences don’t absolutely dictate where I live because I understand nothing is perfect. It’s a big country and world. Let people have preferences without being weird about it

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              You realize this is a comment thread that is responding to the OP’s “starter pack” image, right? The entire premise of the image is: I have extremely bounded preferences, but it’s unfair I can’t buy a house for 200K based on those preferences.

              Did you buy the home you currently own in a location that satisfied these preferences for 200K or less? Or are you just responding to my response and not the image to which I was responding?

              I have no problem with people having exceptionally limiting preferences, but it seems silly to then complain about the lack (or cost) of those very limited options.