@TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 9 months agoWhat's the biggest plot hole in real life?message-square84fedilinkarrow-up1134arrow-down19file-text
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minus-squareMontaggelinkfedilink15•9 months agoIf most people are good why doesn’t the world get better without violence?
minus-squarelol3droflxplinkfedilink19•9 months agoThere’s a saying in German that my grandmother sometimes used, it roughly translates to “The person is good but the people are bad” (Der Mensch ist gut, aber die Leut sind schlecht).
minus-square@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilink12•edit-29 months agoI like that. Another quote that comes to mind is this, from the movie Men in Black (1997): A person is smart; people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. – Tommy Lee Jones, as Agent K
minus-square@dudinax@programming.devlinkfedilink7•9 months ago“Germans: so estimable in the individual, so execrable in the aggregate”. – paraphrase of Goethe
minus-square@kaj@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink-7•9 months agoMost people regularly eat dead animals, so violence is still everywhere. In fact, there’s more now than ever before. :(
If most people are good why doesn’t the world get better without violence?
There’s a saying in German that my grandmother sometimes used, it roughly translates to “The person is good but the people are bad” (Der Mensch ist gut, aber die Leut sind schlecht).
I like that.
Another quote that comes to mind is this, from the movie Men in Black (1997):
“Germans: so estimable in the individual, so execrable in the aggregate”. – paraphrase of Goethe
Most people regularly eat dead animals, so violence is still everywhere. In fact, there’s more now than ever before. :(
Would you prefer they eat live animals?
Edgy!