A splash of water in whisky isn’t at all uncommon in Scotland.

I know a guy earning six figures that considers himself working class because “I work”, we all know he’s comfortably middle upper.

I don’t judge him based upon his wealth but that doesn’t mean class isn’t a thing.

Tap water.

I used to drink a lot of carbonated drinks but after I gave them up, I don’t miss them.

My girlfriend (32) asked me if I was a boomer. I’m 37 😭

A lot of the time it comes down to how engaging the teller of the story is.

The same story could be told by two different people. One who’s animated, emotionally engaged and who appears them self to be very interested, the other, who is the complete opposite of those things.

There are stories that I’ve found hilarious and/or engaging that upon reflection that were really just a load of pointless nonsense and vice versa stories that feel like they’re boring and worthless at the time, but that upon reflection had real gold nuggets of information or wisdom.

This is why I’ll always listen to others, I may end up no richer, but there’s a chance that I will.

It’s a related opinion

Fair enough. I definitely do that too, sometimes you can also link the post of when the question was last asked.

Typing a query in to Google is faster than making a post on Reddit and yet people still wanted you to do it for them. I never posted “have you tried Google?”, or anything like that, but lmgtfy links were always a fun option.

I hate posts where the answer is the top search result on Google. We’re not here as a proxy for a search engine.

Some subreddits had a “use Google first” rule.

Hard disagree. I think we’re born stupid, that’s very different.

Honestly, your comment sounds a lot like the “original sin” shit that the Christian church tries to push.

I agree that power zealous mods are shit, but it’s also poor when well written comments and posts, made in good faith, are heavily downvoted for no other reason than not conforming to the consensus of the hive mind, which definitely happens here.

We should be encouraging discussion, not discouraging wrong think.

Every community is an echo chamber except for mine!

The worlds a magical place when things just work and stuff just happens. Never study engineering lol.

If it makes you feel any better, on a universal scale we’re as insignificant as bugs and I’m sure quite nearly as ignorant.

In the late 1800’s someone said that we nearly know all that there is to know, look at what’s happened since and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if knowledge continued to increase a such a rate.

I would argue that babies and toddlers wouldn’t be held accountable for their bad choices, even though they could foreseeably be life changing for the worst, if they stuck their hand in a blender for example. Although you could argue that in this case a parent/carer should not leave a young child near a dangerous object.

Most people would agree that a person that is fully accountable when they are considered an adult, we usually apply the arbitrary age of 18, although I do find it strange that a person that is 17 years, 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds old is a child and one second later they’re magically an adult.

There is definitely a grey area in the early teens or possibly even younger where you can definitely make a decision that ruins your life. An example that comes to mind is when two ten year old boys stole a toddler, then tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered him. They were judged as having the ability to act with criminal intent, found guilty and sentenced to prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger?wprov=sfla1

Despite declining social mobility, mke_geek makes a fair point, being born poor isn’t absolutely guaranteed to mean that you won’t be able to have a meaningful or fullfilling life. I’m sure that many people who are born in remote villages with a subsistence lifestyle, that we would view as living in poverty, are happier than many people who are born in “first world” countries.

Anyway, OP is asking about choices, not situations that are inflicted upon them.

Right, “should I do drugs?” is not a typical choice for a 9 year old to have to make, they should be protected from that. I have heard stories of particularly shitty parents giving drugs to their own young children.

OP is asking about wrong/bad/poor choices etc, the last sentence of their post specifically says it’s not about situations that are inflicted upon them.

To be fair, OP is asking about bad/poor/wrong decisions, the last sentence of their post specifically says it’s not about situations that are inflicted upon them. No one gets to choose where they are born.

I did realise that it’s a specific situation but as the original post didn’t have more context, I didn’t see why I shouldn’t be allowed to suggest some.

If OP wants to expand on the situation, they’re welcome to.