Why “human nature” takes a higher priority than “common sense”.
Human history is rife with people fueling vicious cycles, most notably surrounding conflicts between certain groups of people like we see today. These cycles are excused under the crutch of “human nature” but wouldn’t exist if those people stepped back and thought “wait a minute”.
When I was little, me and my siblings were taught that our outcomes are our responsibility and that our physical/neurological/psychological shortcomings are no excuse for a member of society, so when I see someone talk about someone having done something wrong and say “it’s only human nature”, I just want to say “dude, I’m a woman with several medical conditions and yet you’re worse than I am if you use the plain fact that someone is human to justify their behavior”.
Judge weak people by their natures. Wiser ones, by their goals.
Good life advice from Francis Bacon :)
It’s not human nature, it’s what happens when we act like animals, and that’s what society teaches us to do. Compete, become “someone”, bla bla.
One of the many myriad things I don’t understand is why humans don’t think of themselves as organisms. Like they know they can train dogs to do things with positive reinforcement but don’t think other people do that to them. Or if someone did it’s some kind of insult.
There’s a weird disconnect between humans and nature in general.
It’s against the law to let animals suffer to death in cases of injury, sickness, etc. Euthanasia is almost mandated. But the same thing for humans is a horrible crime, even if the person explicitly asked for it. That’s insane.
At least in the West,. Christianity played a part in that.
Things like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy have been changing that though
Why do people tap their breaks in the left lane when passing someone slower on the right?
Please stop. Tap your breaks if you’re signaling something going on in front, or if you need to slow down faster than just taking your foot off the gas will slow you.
Why are you braking?! I find myself asking that out loud at the driver in front of me too many times. Sometimes I see drivers in other lanes doing it too. It’s as if they were driving a runaway vehicle that accelerates on its own.
Our inability to learn from other people’s mistakes is staggering and bizarre.
Or more poetically, I think the thing I understand least about humanity, is why it understands itself so poorly.
I was thinking last night how weird it is that we can suspend disbelief while watching a movie. Like, we see Tom Cruise on screen and know he’s the most famous person in the world and we saw him alive on TV today, yet we get worried that he’s gonna die in a ten year old movie?
Tom who?
The guy from that Castaway movie.
What’s with belly buttons?
that they exist or that people think they look good
Yes
fear of the unknown.
the superman-paranoia effect. something like if there’s a being out there that has super abilities and uses it to help others, governments would still reign this person in just-in-case he goes rogue.
There are people that destroy things with no benefit to themselves or do things that hurt themselves just because it hurt who they consider to be “the right people.”
It’s just tribalism
The primary goal is to show off how much of a team member they are, by picking on some “other”. It strengthens their ties to their group, by having an enemy to unite against.
Why do people insert fragile glass objects into holes?
Oh so you think you’re too cool for that? You’ve never looked at a jar and thought “I wonder what that would feel like in my ass?”
That so many people feel the need to force other well-functioning people under their own religious or non-religious moral code.
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How is it that some people are completely unable to look beyond their own perspective
Because other people are stupid and wrong about everything. (!) At least that’s how most people view everyone else in the world.
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Well…there are a lot of things I don’t understand, but maybe I’m just weird in that way :)) I don’t understand why some people accept that what they know at this moment is enough and don’t try to learn new stuff and be better tomorrow than they are now. I don’t understand why some people choose to ignore creativity and event think that creative people are childish or even stupid. And also, I don’t understand why lots of people choose to be jackasses and act accordingly to others when it would be so easy do not do this.
WHAT IS SO FUCKING HARD ABOUT THE ZIPPER MERGE?!?
Do you motherfuckers REALLY think you’re a defender of traffic justice when you’re attempting to run people off the road for using a designated lane?
