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you definitely express (if a bit long windedly, certainly with plenty of flava) my knee jerk reaction too. and it's a solid response.
but there are people who do care. people who are starting out, people who are hanging in, and people who have left but still keep their eyes open. the people who still use and appreciate the opportunity of a tabler to come and have conversations that they wouldn't get to have anywhere, or with anyone else in their lives (yet).
what i'm arguing is partly in your category of "not giving up on the word" but it's also a reflection that no-group-of-people-is-a-monolith, and every time we go into public (well, every time i do) it's an expression of some kind of important optimism. that optimism isn't important to everyone, it's not always important to me, but it's still important.
are there other ways it can be expressed?