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We only really have words and images to contextualize eachother with. And people generally have no fucking idea what, or who they’re talking to. (Especially if they claim they DO know) and especially if they’re super vitrolic and hateful about it.
I regularly post about my niche interests, music, Linux stuff, furry and pony stuff, puppycore, etc. And every blue moon or so, that seems to attract a new species of fuckwit. On FIVE separate occasions now across nine different platforms I have been DM’d by people with some variation of a wojak in their profile picture accusing me of being a woman poorly pretending to be a man. A very small group of unfortunate people in this world will likely spend their entire lives clawing at ghosts. Fighting non-existent enemies and “others”. Searching for the breadcrumbs that lead up to the grand conspiracy, scouring others for the traits they deem evil or whatever.
If that sounds like undiagnosed schizophrenia. It’s because it probably is. This person needs serious psychiatric care.
I feel like people with the “kindness is weak! Dog eat dog” attitude have this distorted vision of human nature where if you removed all of the societal constraints, people would just start opportunistically killing each other. Empathy is the reason we didn’t go extinct at the peak of the afro/eurasian bottleneck when we numbered less than 2,000 individuals. Sure, we find neolithic mass graves with skulls piled upon skulls. Cracked limbs, gnawed bones, maimed hands, you name it. All kinds of cruelty.
But if human nature is entirely self-serving, why do we find evidence of aincent surgeries? Of healed femur marrow, removed parasites, and makeshift stints? Why do we see marked burial sites made for individuals who aren’t necessarily even related? Wouldn’t it serve you better to let your competitors die? Empathy was * literally* a prerequisite for the emergence of civilization. It was “let’s stick together, and make a better future for everyone” not “hey, let’s fly this guy to Mars so he doesn’t die”
But you know what. I’m sure the hebephilic misanthrope will do a wonderful job improving the human condition with AI generated child pornography, and over priced cars.
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