Short excerpt from a YouTube interview (uploaded April 27, 2024) in which David Seymour describes how he responds personally to vitriolic online commenters. He says such nastiness makes him sad because those people lack the ability to see other viewpoints or empathise, and frames this as their loss while noting broader societal progress (people living much longer than 200 years ago).
How do you personally, David the human, not David the leader, but David the human, deal with.
Vitriolic.
People, Nastiness. How do you compartmentalize that?
Well, they make me sad, but not for the reason you might think. I don't know how you deal with a group of people out there who just don't really have the ability to think, see another point of view, empathise. The loss is really theirs. There's a whole world out there and it's really interesting. Some people are doing some cool stuff. There's differences of view and for the most part we're getting on and doing pretty well. I mean, people are living twice as long as they were know 200 years ago. Well, that's basically the summary of what. What have we got for the last 200 years? Everyone gets an extra life.
It's amazing.
Yeah, I mean, I'm just going into my second life now, I just turned 40. And yet there's some people that all they can do is write rude things on the Internet.
