Why Austin Powers still works today.

You're thinking about this in terms of nihilistic detachment/indifference

But not everyone subscribes to your particular brand. For example I'm more of an existentialist.

You're saying I'm a nihilist, but you're also saying nothing's real and nothing matters so just do you or w/e. I think there's real truths about being human, and you don't see them when you're attached to egotistical notions. That after all is what's being 'hurt' in all these scenarios you describe.

If a person feels violated by the hurt caused by the rudeness of others, that feeling is proof enough of its value.

Is that even what existentialism is? isn't it chiefly concerned w/ 'meaning' as discovered via intense soul-searching? How does this figure w/ stupid shit like wanting ppl to think your baby's cute or w/e?

The problem w/ saying that is, again - it equally validates the view that it might likewise be enjoyable for the person on the other side of the equation to cause hurt, or they could feel violated that the person feels hurt by what they do, and all that is no less 'proof enough of its value' than what you said.

And like I said, you say 'cause' w/o understanding the actual causality of hurt b/c it isn't caused by 'others'.

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