I want the worst version of myself out. I recently made two shitty co-workers crap themselves.
You’d be wrong. I’m sorry that you feel this way about humanity, but that is simply not true. And believing that won’t make you a “smart” person. It makes you’re no better than those people, and it also makes you feel worse.
It might be satisfying in the moment to hate humanity, but that satisfaction is fleeting and addicting. Being a misanthrope just brings the worst version of yourself out.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 days ago
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Being bad towards shitty people is a different beast from being bad towards everyone because you assume the worst out of everyone.
Righteous outrage is addicting, but it’s also extremely fucking draining. I left reddit because I’d constantly rage bait myself every day and it was destroying my relationships.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Read your profile, our stories are nearly the same!
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Seems condescending to assume I think that belief makes me “smart”. I’m speaking on my experience, that’s the only experience I have. I don’t appreciate you trying to make me out as some kind of angsty teen rebel.
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Well, your experience isn’t universal. Most people aren’t like you described.
Maybe you need a change of environment.
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Let me put it this way. If your family was 1 of 2 surviving families on earth for whatever reason and all the resources have run out. You’re stuck in an underground bunker and unfortunately your only option for survival is cannibalism (this is a common thought exercise in philosophy) are you more willing to eat your family? Or the other?
And what about towards the end, when it’s just you and one other person. Do you override your survival instinct and offer yourself up, or do you start reasoning to yourself that this is a necessary evil?