Russian tube supply issues

Uh, a maniac is murdering humans and your biggest issue is, "can I get tubes for my billion dollar stereo?"

You did it. I am speechless.

Exactly, that’s the strawman that keeps getting thrown around.

I’m also wondering if we have enough pasta for our dinner tonight or if I can book a haircut today. "Wait, a maniac is murdering humans and your biggest issue is "can I find pasta or book a haircut???!!! You monster!"

No, of course I don’t think "that’s the biggest issue in the world!" That’s absurd - but we all have to still live life and all have our ongoing personal concerns which doesn’t for a second mean we think they are as important as the people being killed in Ukraine. It’s just such an absurd strawman.

You could put the concerns of literally EVERYTHING anyone is talking about on this forum right now in the same strawman context. "People are dying in Ukraine and all you care about is discussing speakers?" And since every day of every year there are large numbers of people suffering terribly, you could say we are all without conscience to even be discussing First World Privileges like high end audio gear.

As if we don’t have any sense of proportion, as if we actually think "not getting the tubes for my amp" is somehow on par with the destruction of free human life. As if nobody here has a sense of proportion and can understand how fortunate we may be with respect to how others may be suffering.

This type of virtue-signalling scolding really is the most uncharitable approach where you just assume the worst character possible on someone else, don’t even bother thinking the other person has a sense of proportion, mostly to make yourself feel or look better. It’s so lazy. That’s why it p*sses me off so much.