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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Humanity compulsively mirrors the behavior of other people, in order to be accepted by their peers. They have neurons dedicated to this mirroring. Furthermore, people compulsively fight and kill anyone who isn't exactly like them - which is why my life is in danger, and why there are genocides.

This results in humanity constantly working to be exactly like one another - both to be accepted, and to avoid being killed. People who fail to do so do not survive, leaving only those who are almost exactly like one another.

Not to mention that asserting that people aren't equal is simply bigotry. The only people who don't think any person is representative of the whole of humanity are white supremacists.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This person did NOT go outside today

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No shit - assholes like you would compulsively murder me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean murder literally? Like you think if anyone saw you they would literally stab you with any sharp object near by? Or are you taking about a social pressure and systematic oppression that wears you down slowly over time?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Technically both, but they prioritize domination - which includes that "social pressure and systematic oppression" you mentioned. They will kill me, but only because I refuse to be dominated, refuse to submit to my own oppression.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No wonder, if you act the same in real life like you do in this comment section.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And how do you expect me to act - like a submissive bitch?

I'm not your slave; I'm not your property. I will fight tooth-and-nail to protect my liberty.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Furthermore, people compulsively fight and kill anyone who isn't exactly like them

Citation needed. How is there any diversity at all in the world? Not everyone is exactly the same.

The only people who don't think any person is representative of the whole of humanity are white supremacists.

A sample size of one or a few is never totally representative of billions. Do you think everyone in the world is exactly like Greta Thunberg? People have a huge variety of values and personalities, you can't boil everyone down to a charcuterie of the particular people you grew up with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Citation needed.

Uh, every fucking genocide? Read a history book.

A sample size of one or a few is never totally representative of billions

My sample size is in the thousands - more than that if you include everyone who has participated in a genocide. Even more if you include every bigot.

People have a huge variety of values and personalities

And none of them mean jack shit. You're bringing up meaningless drivel to support your weak-ass argument.

you can’t boil everyone down to a charcuterie of the particular people you grew up with.

The problem - confirmed by my therapists - is that there were exactly zero samples of anyone contrasting.

A society capable of keeping such people away at all can do so indefinitely. So it doesn't matter if they ever existed or not - people will keep them away from me forever, simply because they could not live with themselves if they fail.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh, every fucking genocide? Read a history book.

You're taking about all of humanity, not just people who have committed genocide. Not everyone on earth has committed genocide.

My sample size is in the thousands - more than that if you include everyone who has participated in a genocide. Even more if you include every bigot.

Are you only including bad people in your sample? Obviously that would end up skewing the sample towards people being bad. Have you heard of the term representative sample in statistics? That's how I'm using it.

The problem - confirmed by my therapists - is that there were exactly zero samples of anyone contrasting.

I'm sorry you haven't met any non terrible people. I've met plenty. I hope you can meet some more people to change that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not everyone on earth has committed genocide.

But anyone at least supports genocide, at least theoretically.

Are you only including bad people in your sample?

Not intentionally, but the whole point is that 1) a random sampling obtains no "good" people 2) a thorough search also fails to turn up these mythical "good" people.

I hope you can meet some more people to change that.

The people I'm surrounded by would never allow that. They are willing to commit genocide to make sure the people they control stay in control.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by genocide? What does it mean to support it? The only genocide I've been alive for that I know of is the current one against the Uyghur Muslims. Am I supporting that one?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does fucking no one read a history book on this planet?

I'm referring to all of them ever waged. I'm referring to the fact that people practice genocide - and have become quite good at it for practicing it so often.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do I support those genocides?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By not killing the genocidists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many “genocidists” have you killed?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I plead the fifth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

By not killing ones killing the uyghur muslims? That's the only genocide I've been alive for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am regularly blamed for things I was not alive for. Why do you get a pass where I don't?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're wrong and you're wrong. You can both be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not on that - it's an either/or situation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No it isn't. Both the people blaming you for things before you are alive are wrong, and you blaming me for things before I was alive are wrong. Both are wrong because they were blaming people for things they couldn't have effected.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you give an example of something you are blamed for that you weren't alive for?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Sylmar Earthquake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by good? People who don't want to totally dominate all other people at every opportunity?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. I define evil, generally, as the will and desire to dominate others. This is informed by the group of Cluster-B personality disorders.