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But yeah, people do bad things. There's only so much you can personally do to prevent those things from happening.
I suggets solipsism.
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The intelligence of that person determines their ability to decide what is right and wrong, however. Now, I have had a few drinks tonight, but I'm completely serious when I say I support a procreation license based on intellectual capacity.
Anyway, I deal with such things by having a passive and relaxed philosophy for life. Well, I alternate between that and a "Fuck yeah, human species!" way of thinking if I'm being particularly happy about life (Say, I just watched Gurren Lagann).
Now, that's pretty terrible, but it's also kinda funny. The trick is to have a sense of humour when it comes to this crazy, fucked up world of ours.
are you sure about that?
did your friend get bitten by a spider lately?
Flank the sun and the moon, embrace space and time, and meet like lips, settling in the slipperly murk where servants exalt each other. Ordinary people slave away, while the sage is stupid and simple, participating in ten thousand ages and unifying them in complete simpicity. The ten thousand things are as they are, and so are jumbled together.
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Don't make a name for yourself or follow a plan. Don't take responsibilty or claim knowledge. Thoroughly embody what can't be exhausted and wander where you cna't be seen. Take everything you get from Heaven, but don't consider it gain. Just be empty. Perfected people use their minds like mirrors, not welcoming things as they come or escorting them as they go. They respond without keeping, so they can conquer without harm.
How about it?
(for those who missed it, someone spammed horrible Japanese fetish porn in this thread...)
Not comfortable at all.
As for coping... I guess I don't believe this is a world full of cocks. There are a lot of them, sure, but if I wouldn't murder your grandmother, there's a possibility you wouldn't murder mine, right? The fact that it's only a possibility would be why I wouldn't feel comfortable in your hypothetical scenario. That fact's also the reason I sometimes smile at strangers.
I don't hate the world. I don't hate an individual unless they give me reason to. I don't have such reasons from every single member of our population.
I suppose I could hate the idea that every single person has the potential to be a cock. But I don't.
I used to subscribe to the school of "everybody's decent deep down" but then a load of messed up stuff happened- the NiceGuy I was dating raped me an his friends essentially covered up for it because it happened in their house and at the time they were running a home tuition agency and were worried about how it would look for them if the police and or media got involved. Well, major headfuck for a while right there. I'd known these guys 5 years and they didn't hesitate to fuck me over to preserve their own self image. They probably still think they're pretty good people over all, is the thing.
And that's why people do fucked up shit, not to be evil or to be mean- just because they think they can get away with it. And afterwards they either don't care, or rationalise it and lie to themselves until they were the good guy/victim. There's also a whole other class of people that will just be violent and destructive for no particular profit or gains, but rather just to see what things look like when they're broken.
In the end there's only a few things you can do:
1. Really hang on to your sense of humour about the screwed up things that will happen to you.
2. Accept that you cannot control other people's actions, but if you get the opportunity, call people out when they do screwed up stuff.
3. Be an exemplar- have your morals, your integrity, and stick with it. Never compromise yourself on the off chance you'll "get away with it".
4. Remember that we're still fucking lucky to have what we have compared to the vast swathe of history, and the messed up stuff a lot of the world still has to like with.
Oh and find good friends that you really can trust.
or how bout?
"Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning it's illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world. Was Rorschach. Does that answer your questions, Doctor?" -Watchmen
or possibly...
"Well, fuck you, too. Fuck me, fuck you, fuck this whole city and everyone in it. Fuck the panhandlers, grubbing for money, and smiling at me behind my back. Fuck the squeegee men dirtying up the clean windshield of my car. Get a fucking job! Fuck the Sikhs and the Pakistanis bombing down the avenues in decrepit cabs, curry steaming out their pores, stinking up my day. Terrorists in fucking training. SLOW THE FUCK DOWN! Fuck the Chelsea boys with their waxed chests and pumped up biceps. Going down on each other in my parks and on my piers, jingling their dicks on my Channel 35. Fuck the Korean grocers with their pyramids of overpriced fruit and their tulips and roses wrapped in plastic. Ten years in the country, still no speaky English? Fuck the Russians in Brighton Beach. Mobster thugs sitting in cafés, sipping tea in little glasses, sugar cubes between their teeth. Wheelin' and dealin' and schemin'. Go back where you fucking came from! Fuck the black-hatted Chassidim, strolling up and down 47th street in their dirty gabardine with their dandruff. Selling South African apartheid diamonds! Fuck the Wall Street brokers. Self-styled masters of the universe. Michael Douglas, Gordon Gekko wannabe mother fuckers, figuring out new ways to rob hard working people blind. Send those Enron assholes to jail for FUCKING LIFE! You think Bush and Cheney didn't know about that shit? Give me a fucking break! Tyco! Worldcom! Fuck the Puerto Ricans. 20 to a car, swelling up the welfare rolls, worst fuckin' parade in the city. And don't even get me started on the Dom-in-i-cans, 'cause they make the Puerto Ricans look good. Fuck the Bensonhurst Italians with their pomaded hair, their nylon warm-up suits, their St. Anthony medallions, swinging their, Jason Giambi, Louisville slugger, baseball bats, trying to audition for the Sopranos. Fuck the Upper East Side wives with their Hermes scarves and their fifty-dollar Balducci artichokes. Overfed faces getting pulled and lifted and stretched, all taut and shiny. You're not fooling anybody, sweetheart! Fuck the uptown brothers. They never pass the ball, they don't want to play defense, they take five steps on every lay-up to the hoop. And then they want to turn around and blame everything on the white man. Slavery ended one hundred and thirty seven years ago. Move the fuck on! Fuck the corrupt cops with their anus violating plungers and their 41 shots, standing behind a blue wall of silence. You betray our trust! Fuck the priests who put their hands down some innocent child's pants. Fuck the church that protects them, delivering us into evil. And while you're at it, fuck JC! He got off easy! A day on the cross, a weekend in hell, and all the hallelujahs of the legioned angels for eternity! Try seven years in fuckin' Otisville, J! Fuck Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and backward-ass, cave-dwelling, fundamentalist assholes everywhere. On the names of innocent thousands murdered, I pray you spend the rest of eternity with your seventy-two whores roasting in a jet-fuel fire in hell. You towel headed camel jockeys can kiss my royal Irish ass! Fuck Jacob Elinsky, whining malcontent. Fuck Francis Xavier Slaughtery my best friend, judging me while he stares at my girlfriend's ass. Fuck Naturelle Riviera, I gave her my trust and she stabbed me in the back, sold me up the river, fucking bitch. Fuck my father with his endless grief, standing behind that bar sipping on club sodas, selling whisky to firemen, cheering the Bronx bombers. Fuck this whole city and everyone in it. From the row-houses of Astoria to the penthouses on Park Avenue, from the projects in the Bronx to the lofts in Soho. From the tenements in Alphabet City to the brownstones in Park slope to the split-levels in Staten Island. Let an earthquake crumble it, let the fires rage, let it burn to fucking ash and then let the waters rise and submerge this whole rat-infested place." -25th Hour
As to your hypothetical, I'm actually pretty comfortable a random person would do the right thing, or at least, not the wrong thing. If someone randomly saw the keys in a door of a house, or a car, or whatever, how many do you think actually go in and steal something?
No, the people who make me lose faith in humanity are the ones who profit legally through suffering. The people who have set up systems of law and finance that allow them to operate at an abstract, macro level and remove them from the day to day consequences of their actions. Not the guy who steals a hundred bucks from a convenience store or an ice cream parlor.
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This is an absurd hypothetical.
I mean, given this scenario, would people refrain from stealing if there were no consequences for the theft, or the chance of punishment was so miniscule as to not even be considered? I don't know if the majority of people do the right thing because they are inherantly good--or at least want to be good--or because bad actions have consequences.
People know this stuff. I've talked about it before.
I still have faith in humanity, a desire to be a good person, and to help others.
To the OP, I'm going to sound like a big prick for a moment and suggest that if two unrelated events of people being shitty to one another is enough to challenge your faith in the species, you are pretty sheltered and need some perspective on life to appreciate it better.
This society in which people do not sympathize with each other and live only to selfish ends has left me in despair!
Can I have your stuff?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYU8w8hFpPY
Most people don't steal because they know stealing deprives others of things. That is why they don't steal. That is how they're taught why they shouldn't steal. It's why people who don't steal will pirate software and be ok with that - because they're not depriving anyone of anything, in a direct sense.
I mean, we don't bring this up enough, but society works because on the whole mankind wants it to work. Because people, generally, act with empathy and kindness towards others. Is it any wonder that our best regulatory fuck ups tend to happen when the culture in business, for example, shifts towards "get what you can while you can". Sure, we can attack that problem as much as we want, but we fair a whole lot better when culturally people are being told to be emphatic, not ruthless.
Do you not murder because you're afraid of the punishment? Can you think of a scenario where you would kill someone, and does the punishment figure into that?
I don't necessarily buy this, given issues like internet piracy and office theft. Both are relatively anonymous crimes, incur little chance of punishment and are extremely prevelant.
Murder isn't really comparable to theft and isn't what I was talking about in my first post.
Edit: Of course, I suppose some people might view piracy and office theft as taking from a faceless, nameless entity and not an actual victim. Hell, I dunno.
There's no way to argue this without it getting extremely complicated though: on the one hand, people steal laptops from my university office. On the other hand, despite the apparent ease of this, it is still comparatively uncommon. There are no cameras in there - it would be trivial for me to steal a lot of things without getting caught. And yet I don't. Why?
It only takes a few bad apples to ruin the batch - it's selection bias plain and simple. Once something is stolen from someone physically, it's gone and oh the world is so terrible. But we don't remember all the time leading up to that, or more importantly, how many people didn't steal it. Upwards of a thousand people could go past an attractive item and not take it, yet we wouldn't notice or care because the point is (subjectively) someone did.
What else can you do?
In comparison to what?
I also don't expect everyone to be saints.
I have faith in people to be people. So far, it has largely paid off.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I would have zero faith that people would do the right thing. I would fully expect to find my place robbed. Humans are selfish, stupid creatures. I've never had faith in humanity.
I never locked my dorm room door in college. In fact, I rarely shut the door, even when I left for class.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
But I try to cope with those types of situations though a large amount of apathy, and doing my part to make the lives of the people I meet better. Whether its through being polite and curteous to the server at a restaurant, or leaving a big tip, or helping friends and family with moving or home improvement projects or general home maintenance.
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You would.
I think cars are less likely to be stolen than most things because the average person has no idea how to turn a profit on a stolen car. If a person saw an iPod out in the open, however, I think they'd figure out what to do with it pretty fast.
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