[agentofoblivion]

Yes, pride -> fall, I get it. Although it's the celebration of the fall from the sidelines that I'm questioning. I can feel the spite in your words--towards me, towards Musk, and the "other side", which are a faceless group you call the Volunteer Musk Defense Brigade, of which I'm apparently an unknowing member, I guess because I don't think some technical glitch is that big of a deal. You seem to feel lots of spite for people you've never met. I think there are plenty of tragedies written of people destroyed by their spite--maybe Notes from the Underground qualifies.

And in an irony of ironies, you crawl through my post history and take objection to me expressing my lack of empathy for those that make repeated bad financial decisions, but you're not only defending that very sentiment, but taking it a step further: enjoyment of the suffering. I hope you find peace, brother. I'm going to put my robes back on and get those last few meditation hours in now.

[wpietri]

You're not questioning it. You're objecting to it. If you were actually questioning, you would have engaged with the fact that stories about hubris justly punished have been a staple of moral education for literal millennia.

But you're only objecting to it when it's somebody you like. When it's poor people, you're fine with trumpeting your imagined moral superiority. But when it's a famous rich guy, you're out here doing free PR on his behalf. You did not "go build something" then, and you're unable to even reflect on your blatant double standard.

You have no standing to moralize at me. And just to be clear, what I feel for you is not spite, but contempt, because you're not only a hypocrite, but you're using what might be otherwise valid moral points to derail discussion of one of the world's biggest jerks. Motes and beams, buddy.