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polymathwannabe comments on Open Thread, Jul. 6 - Jul. 12, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 06 July 2015 11:10:18PM 12 points [-]

adult male virgins with normal desires have become the freaks, weirdos and expendables

High time you get this: not all news is about you. Obsessing about how everything compares to your situation is only going to hurt you more.

by current standards many people today would have called him a loser

The thing is, he didn't live under our standards. It makes no sense to judge him by the expectations of a culture he never knew.