This is not okay, your posts are pissing people on here off. It’s offensive to call people with illness “automatic failures” and implies that they are responsible for their illness.
Can’t just let you carry on, sorry.
And for the record, when I was sick as a dog, I was an incredible athlete. Illness does not equal failure.
They even call fighters and weightlifters “sick” as a desirable adjective. “That fight was sick” or “your abs are sick” or “that deadlift was sick”. Sick as ■■■■ I was, mind you. Very ill! Very mentally ill.
Maybe stop repeatedly saying the same thing that you know is making people upset.
I suffer from diverticular disease. It’s the result of a poor diet in my youth. It’s very much my fault and I have to live with and work around the consequences of past decisions. My opinion is that your posts are misinformed and often inane. Please put more thought and effort into what you share.
You’re still dealing with black and white absolutes. We aren’t always set for automatic success or automatic failure. Poor health means failure at what, again? At what tasks does being ill constitute automatic failure? I ask because I have probably done whatever task in ill health. I’m not kidding here.
I think the point about results not always being tied to effort is a good one, Sagar. A lot of us have been labelled failures or not capable without any consideration of where we started from. I think that’s why the wording of this quote has touched such a nerve.
And plenty of people here have been automatically written off as failures before they started, and have gone on and manually proven everyone wrong.