That’s the first thing I thought when I read this post and I don’t understand why you are not upvoted more.

OP wants me to take advice from the person who won the lottery and disregard all the others who sunk stupid amounts of money and got nothing to show for it? I’d rather hear them all and make an informed decision.

Absolutely. I find that much more productive than the catchall evil.

It’s not about being nice for me. More about how humanity could grow out of this cycle. Be better prepared when the storm is over.

Do I think this needs to be stopped? Most definitely. Do I think we will learn anything from it? Probably not. Or way too little.

But like I said. This just might not be the time anymore to have the luxury being more nuanced.

I’d buy you one in return.

Yeh I’m with you. We might well be past the point where people can still come together. I also feel quite discouraged that things have escalated to this. But I’m still trying to keep a few of my principles and a bit of my humanity. I don’t believe there’s evil, its a term for scaring children or riling up people against each other in contexts like religion or other groups. It’s just circumstances and humans who are not fit to deal with them in a healthy way.

I‘m sure our opinions don’t differ too much, I’m totally with you on many things.

What I’m trying to get at is that we end up with 2 groups of people who call each other evil. Because that’s what using these labels boils things down to. And whoever is stronger will come out on top and claim they righteously defeated the evil others. There no discourse to be had, there’s no nuance. Only hate. Which as we can see is also very easy to weaponize.

It’s exactly this rhetoric that demonizes and dehumanizes the other that got us here.

Humans can be misguided and become really really shitty people. But labeling anyone evil is just lazy and won’t help make anything better. It just fuels the fire of this downward spiral.

At least that’s my thoughts.

Science has a really nice butt though, ngl

Have you tried masochism?