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Mountaineering is dangerous and expensive.
I don't have much sympathy for the people that use their excess wealth for thrills while children go without food and education.
There is value in exploring hobbies and building skills. For example, during natural disasters in remote areas, people with experience are better suited to go in and help. People with climbing experience might be going down into a collapsed mine to rescue survivors.
Thanks for this. I now feel less guilty about buying a guitar because I could one day use it to soothe the minds of trapped miners.
Yeah, think about that while fingering A minor or picking a G-string.
Don't fret. When I want to switch to A minor, I keep my finger firmly in place on a very thin nylon G string.
??? Austrians on an Austrian mountain, why would that be out of reach to working people and involve excess wealth at all? Also, those problems are for the state to solve and Austria has a decent welfare system, improvable, like all of them, but not something to be fixed by two random citizens.
I can sort of see your point, but it also sounds a little like "oh you enjoy any hobby or activity not strictly related to your survival? Well fuck you then, there are people starving".
The original comment has been deleted but I can guess what was said.
People like this have no concept of what being wealthy truly means. They think that people who have a well paying job, some money in the bank, and can afford some nice things, are somehow the 1%.
They're cooked, and not worth replying to.
Nah. The amount of money being spent coupled with it being dangerous is what leads to my apathy.
It would be different if the money wasted on this venture couldn't drastically change the life of someone living in poverty, especially children.
How much money was spent?
at least three!
This is honestly something that you should speak to a therapist about.
You are posting this from a computer or smart phone, a device that costs a significant amount of money. You are wasting your leisure time that you have because of your comfortable wealth and status in society to post to an online platform which doesn't contribute anything to the world. You are richer than most people on the planet. You are wasting the opportunities given to you as a rich person. You could sell your electronic devices and give the money to the poor. You could be volunteering right now helping less fortunate people. Instead you comment on social media that people who are slightly richer than you don't deserve sympathy for their deaths. People who are actually out in the world living their lives exploring the world and enriching themselves.
Is it really right to be judging someone in this way? In the way that I have just judged you?
From the beginning you dismiss the argument as a mental health problem. This is something a disingenuous asshole does.
Comparing the ridiculous amount of money people waste on mountain climbing to someone's personal computing device you must have to participate in modern society has to be one of the stupidest nonsensical arguments I have ever seen.
Then, on social media yourself no less, you try to play the morally superior one by pointing out supposed hypocrisy. Weak sauce garbage.
You didn't judge anything, but you did show you act like a dishonest bullshitter.
You're upset that I criticized how wealthy people waste their wealth on vain endeavors while children live in poverty.
No, man. Introspect a little.
No, I said that you should speak to a therapist. You seemed like you are jealous of others and insecure about the impact that you have on the world. Compared to most people on this planet you are almost certainly a wealthy person , or else you wouldn't have the luxury to be wasting your time making these comments in this place.
Your comments are literally a vain endeavour.
You're the one who needs a therapist. Look at how upset you're getting and how much nonsense you need to make up because someone else criticized how wealthy people waste their money.
I'm missing the part where I'm upset 🤣.
You are deep in denial, deflecting and refusing to engage with the things that I wrote. Calling it nonsense rather than reflecting on yourself.
It does not cost me emotional energy to dismantle your argument.
Ok, buddy.