• LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I think I get what they’re saying. Basically “What if we collectively sought to bring each other up instead of engaging in competitive individualism?”

    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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      2 months ago

      Part of the issue for me was how I was reading by in the first part of the sentence. I read it the way you would with ‘time went by, or train went by’

  • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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    2 months ago

    Not quite an aneurysm, just a misplaced comma and some absent quotes.

    Translated:

    If the whole world went by the “it takes a village to raise a child” theory, and children were raised not by the individual but by the world as a whole, what would the world look like?

  • Shard@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That’s why we have the solar system. All the other planets are helping to raise earth.

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    Fuck that noise. Raise your own damn kids. Seriously your neighbours are not surrogate parents by right of happening to live near you.