Reality exists. It includes certain facts, such as that people die, which some people find hard to accept. These facts are part of human nature. If these facts cannot be accepted, and are opposed, the people who oppose them become enemies of humanity. They cannot accept humanity for what it is, so they hate it.
Not Michael Anissimov.
Reality exists. It includes certain facts, such as [ANY ASSERTION YOU LIKE], which some people find hard to accept. These facts are part of human nature. If these facts cannot be accepted, and are opposed, the people who oppose them become enemies of humanity. They cannot accept humanity for what it is, so they hate it.
Various people.
Anissimov may be correct in his description of Naomi Wolf and Elliot Rodger (although it seems to me that the room he admits for "cultural reasons" is large enough to contain the entire discourse of both). But the quoted soundbite is an anti-rationality template.
"That people die" is not "part of human nature" in the sense intended by that quote, which means something like "how people think and react".
Furthermore, you can't actually put any assertion you like in that template because the template only works with true assertions.
Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are: