Flying SquidSep 20, 2024

Suffering

https://lemmy.world/post/19999162

Suffering - Lemmy.World

Show threadAlleroSep 20, 2024

The scariest part is that real world is, in fact, a hardcore free-for-all PvP realm.

I’m not talking competition or something. A random person can absolutely come to you at any time, stab or shoot you and you’ll be dead. Forever. No respawns.

It’s only because people don’t really like being murdered that led them to make and enforce rules on what violence is legitimate that curbed the violence. But even still, anytime, anywhere, by anyone, you can absolutely be killed. And if one day something breaks in the chain that makes police work, we’re super screwed.

Show threadporous_grey_matterSep 21, 2024

It’s only because people don’t really like being murdered that…

No it’s also, and more importantly, because people don’t like murdering

Show threadhumorlessrepostSep 21, 2024
If not for people’s negative feelings toward being murdered, I would only take <1% of people enjoying murdering for it to be an extinction-level problem.
Show threadporous_grey_matter
Such an incredibly small number of people want to murder that, even though it would only take <1% of people to get rid of the whole population, we are nowhere near that.
Sep 21, 2024 at 8:00amWeb
Show threadhumorlessrepostSep 23, 2024
I’m genuinely curious what that number would be if we removed any stigma from admitting to it. I’m having trouble finding reliable numbers for sociopathy, but my unreliable memory from reading The Sociopath Nextdoor was 5% of the population are sociopaths, and I don’t think it’s unreasonable that 20% of those would have people they’d kill if there were no consequences for doing so.