society is fine. your mind is being poisoned by the media. they have thousands of stories to choose from every day, and its no surprise that the ones found in print can mostly be paraphrased as saying "the individual man is dangerous, we need authority and supervision." gee, our closely allied govt and media corporations couldnt possibly find this message mutually beneficial... could they? u need to be at least slightly objective. go see humanity for yourself. have u witnessed a murder? have u been viciously attacked? statistically speaking, the answer is no. regardless of the list of scary stories the 5 monolithic media corporations decide to make u read each day, u need some realistic handle on what u are likely to encounter. bc the avg fantastical (yes, thats a word) news story is about as relevant to your own life as a blockbuster film these days. the degree of selection possible in news print rivals the creativity in hollywood (tho its really more repetitive than creative). in both cases there are countless stories to choose from, and at the end of the day, some executives get to decide what stories will remain in the sea of possibilities and which stories are going to bounce around all day in the echo chamber that becomes our perception of reality.
in other words:
lavadisk wrote:
Just a few dirty drops in the sea of humanity, Unless you only watch the news you should rethink your opinion.
Poseidon wrote:
Mitch wrote:
The soldier throwing the puppy off the cliff is disturbing and unnacceptable but i guess theres nothing you can do about it..
That clip has actually left me pretty depressed the past few days. I was close to tears when I first saw it, not gonna lie.
And seeing this, it proves why - it feels as if the human race has no hope. I know that people have murdered people since the dawn of time, but not like this and in these fashions. It's horrid.
nah, nothings changed. and look around, its not so bad. ur dwelling on an exceptionally depressing vid that represents nothing but one disturbed and probably sick soldier. there are million-year-old human fossils complete with fractured skulls and stone tool marks. we have indeed been committing atrocities for our entire prehistory (since before our prehistory as Homo sapiens sapiens, frankly). this doesnt mean the avg person is to be feared, it just means that we have an
extremely wide range of behaviors, the widest known for any species. the most extreme instances of human behavior need not be held as representative of the avg person. it would make no sense, whatsoever.
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