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  • Yeah, I get it. It’s really hard to understand. It’s just basic respect, right? How could someone not value basic human decency?

    I can’t answer that question. All I know is that some people just don’t.

    It doesn’t make sense to me that domestic abusers will beat up someone that loves them, yet it still happens. Politicians push legislation that they know will hurt their constituents, yet they still push it. Parents will try to force the lifestyle they desire for their children on their children out of love, even as it alienates their children, yet they persist. Some (many/all??) criminals know what they do hurts other people, yet they still commit crime.

    I don’t get it either. I only know basic human decency isn’t valued by a lot of people. And you can indignantly scoff at such people all you want, incredulous that they just don’t get the basics of empathy, a fundamental human emotion. They’ll hurt others all the same.

    Me, though? Drawing on my empathy, I hope such people find the happiness and freedom they’re looking for without the pain and suffering they cause.











  • Fukushima caused me to question whether technology and the increase of productive forces create a better society,” he said. “The answer was no.”

    I’m right there with him. I have a hard time seeing how all this technology has made a better society.

    Sure we wiped out Polio, but we don’t have a society anymore where a modern Jonas Salk would not patent the vaccine and give it away for global health. It wouldn’t make economic sense.

    We might have televisions with 8k resolution, but we’re watching a show of people living their lives rather than living our own.

    Social media is ubiquitous and ironically the reason the US has a loneliness epidemic.

    What’s the point of all of it if society isn’t better off? It just feels like we’re wasting energy to waste energy then become alarmed when they energy creates problems, so them we have to waste more energy to solve it.

    Imo, it makes me sense to…just stop. Take a step back, sit down, and chill out.