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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Whether or not you meant it this way, your argument has been used to downplay important social issues for over 100 years, probably a lot longer.

    I’ve heard “Why spend so much effort on X when people are dying out there?”

    Where X is womens’ voting rights, Black rights, sexual freedoms, political freedoms, and religious freedoms just off the top of my head in the US alone.

    If you did mean it with good intentions and not as a debate tactic, know that we can work on two things at once. To use the US as an example again, most of those things I addressed were indeed improved and it’s not like other things just fell by the wayside. We vastly improved food safety, workplace safety, hunger, infrastructure, etc. at the same time.