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Why so many people make decisions based on emotion only, willfully disregarding scientific reasoning.
Super emotional behavior in general.
A lot of people are seemingly completely unable or unwilling to take a step back from their own position and look at a situation at least slightly more rationally. Everything is only seen and interpreted as how it affects them.
The cashier is not super friendly? Must be, that he’s an asshole, can’t be that he just had a bad day.
There’s a minor inconvenience to me because of some public good? Well, fuck the public, I want mine.
An argument with a friend, and I’m already angry? Better get even more angry and start screaming, that’ll show him!
I make lot of decisions on emotions too. The joy of helping people. The pain of seeing others suffer. Admiration of what people create. Fear for someones safety. Anger of hearing about unfairness.
What I don’t get is why so many of these “emotional” people dont seem to have any emotions like that. How is it to live like that? Only living with emotions like fear for oneself and oneself only? This isn’t a fight between logic on one side and emotion on the other. Not science versus beliefs either. It is empathy versus greed. The only emotion these assholes has is a fear of losing whats “theirs”, I’m pretty sure. And if scientific reasoning says its smart to share, of course they disregard it.
We evolved in a climate where that reasoning worked well for our species’ expansion. The amount of time we’ve had written language is only a blink of an eye compared to our species history, so of course we are maladapted to the modern world.
People who don’t use emotional thinking are the exception rather than the rule.
The obsession with what other people do with their lives. I like to be left alone, mind my own business, not bother others. But there seems to be some part of the population that is the opposite and just can’t help but poke and pry at others.
Its because there are some that believe that their freedom does not encroach on the freedoms of other, and need a polite reminder that their actions have consequences, and that we’re all part of a larger whole, no matter how much we pretend otherwise.
Like when people keep asking “is so and so gay” (usually a celebrity). I mean, unless you’re trying to date that person, what difference does it make. Whatever they do behind closed doors - you’re probably not getting an engraved invitation to join in, so give it a rest!!
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 people hurt others / rip others off. I don’t understand that lack of empathy.
Hurt people, hurt people.
There’s parts you understand?
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.
whys it gotta be like that
Monkeys with guns
Is that fair to monkeys?
No, yet here we are
How does it feel?
That so many people feel the need to force other well-functioning people under their own religious or non-religious moral code.
The way we destroy everything in the long term for short term gains. If our goal is to not die out, we are doing it wrong. Its like we’re speed running extinction.
The broad commitment to obsolete ideas.
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?
The cruelty.
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.
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”.
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.
Judge weak people by their natures. Wiser ones, by their goals.
Good life advice from Francis Bacon :)
