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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 7676168" data-attributes="member: 2067">Still pure rumor. It seems we've skipped past facts and gone straight to accusations of BS. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />This &quot;cynical extreme&quot; you've cooked up to oppose appears to be a scarecrow stuffed with pure fantasy. Trying to convince someone that their feelings are wrong, however, is merely tilting at windmills. Here's another cognitive bias for ya: the Fundamental Attribution Error. Maybe toss in the Belief Bias and the Confirmation Bias to boot. But let us not distract from what we are talking about here: a &quot;corporate restructuring&quot; that involves layoffs is going to suck at least a little bit for those who are laid off. If such a thing is happening, it's negative for those people. It is nowhere near a &quot;cynical extreme&quot; to express sympathy for anyone who is in that state, and to acknowledge it as something that sucks.To &quot;call BS&quot; on my feeling that being laid off is a bad thing and to label that perspective a &quot;cynical extreme&quot; and to pretend that it is some emotional bias doesn't serve any constructive goal that I can fathom, and clearly serves several destructive and dehumanizing goals, so I'm left wondering why it's so important to you that other people not feel sympathy for any who happen to be laid off as a result of this hypothetical corporate restructuring.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 7676168, member: 2067"] Still pure rumor. It seems we've skipped past facts and gone straight to accusations of BS. ;) This "cynical extreme" you've cooked up to oppose appears to be a scarecrow stuffed with pure fantasy. Trying to convince someone that their feelings are wrong, however, is merely tilting at windmills. Here's another cognitive bias for ya: the Fundamental Attribution Error. Maybe toss in the Belief Bias and the Confirmation Bias to boot. But let us not distract from what we are talking about here: a "corporate restructuring" that involves layoffs is going to suck at least a little bit for those who are laid off. If such a thing is happening, it's negative for those people. It is nowhere near a "cynical extreme" to express sympathy for anyone who is in that state, and to acknowledge it as something that sucks. To "call BS" on my feeling that being laid off is a bad thing and to label that perspective a "cynical extreme" and to pretend that it is some emotional bias doesn't serve any constructive goal that I can fathom, and clearly serves several destructive and dehumanizing goals, so I'm left wondering why it's so important to you that other people not feel sympathy for any who happen to be laid off as a result of this hypothetical corporate restructuring. [/QUOTE]

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