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Engineering decisions (sub.wetshaving.social)

submitted 1 month ago by weird@sub.wetshaving.social to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[-] Honytawk@feddit.nl 29 points 1 month ago

Normal mainly implies average.

The average person has a spouse and a kid. So the statement is not wrong.

Doesn't mean you can't have a normal life without a wife or a kid. It just doesn't mean average then.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

As there are substantially fewer polygamists than there are single people, the average person has a fraction of a spouse.

[-] kinsnik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Doesn’t mean you can’t have a normal life without a wife or a kid. It just doesn’t mean average then.

wait. so normal means average, or normal does not mean average?

[-] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Its a normative statement. It contributes to alienating people without wives or kids.

[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Only if you take it that way and if you choose to do so that is on you.

Im the guy who wrote the post. Im an aromantic bisexual, would call that normal? I also have no kids

[-] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Perhaps I came off as too hostile. I read your comment and I thought it was potentially harmful and I'm incredibly depressed, so I wrote a hasty sniping response. I tend to think of things said as their effects in aggregate rather than the virtue of the person saying it.

I'm also bi and arguably aromantic. And intend to remain childfree.