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Comment author: blacktrance 22 July 2014 08:28:49PM 3 points [-]

90% of people gain nothing more than entertainment from thinking or talking about it. It's a mind killer in terms of opportunity costs.

Does something being purely entertainment make it a mind-killer? If so, I'm not sure that something being a mind-killer is necessarily bad.

Comment author: drethelin 24 July 2014 11:23:36PM -1 points [-]

it would be fine if people treated political discussions like hpmor threads but they act like the conversation is extremely important.

Comment author: Nornagest 25 July 2014 12:26:50AM *  1 point [-]

People (though not, generally, here) also treat which Harry Potter characters should hook up with which as a question of apocalyptic significance. Something being "pure entertainment" does not preclude identifying strongly with it or acting like it's extremely important, whether or not it is.

Though the reverse is also true.

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