As someone who donates a lot of time tutoring students I can say this one I agree with :)

@freemo "educators" are actually bad people who should get roped in simulations.

@crunklord420 While there are certainly some shitty educators, most in fact, it isnt for lack of trying. They certainly arent evil people. So to assume all educators are bad people is just absurd to me. If you had said most educators are shitty educators though I might have agreed.

@freemo @crunklord420 No one intends to be a bad person, it's a distinction without a difference
@Frankie @crunklord420 @freemo I think people are really good at rationalizing whatever they want to make themselves the protagonist of every scenario in their own recollection of events.

@Frankie

Or simply a different perception of it.

When I think of even the most evil people they almost always justify their evil as some greater good. Serial killers for example claiming it is what god wanted them to do and want not.

I think the vast majority (not all but almost) of people justify their evil actions as good ones somehow

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@freemo @crunklord420 @realDonaldTrump Yeah, the vast majority of people are neurotypical, cowardly and stupid, that's obvious. I'm not sure what appeals to a divine mandate made serial killers have to do with the majority of people, but I'll go ahead and just ignore your weird and completely inappropriate choice of example. Anyway, I took issue with a totalistic statement:
>No one intends to be a bad person
that was made by someone that until now I had assumed had some experience with and understanding of a different kind of person than the average cow-man with a cow-man's ego and morality. Literally who cares.

@Frankie
I would agree with you that the totalistim of the statement made it untrue. Ki da weird you dont see the relevance of serial killer example though. Its to show that in even the most obvious cases of evil people still tend to be able to see it as good. For more everyday sorta of evil it would make sense that would be much easier to convince yourself it isnt evil since it is a less obvious sort of evil.
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@freemo @crunklord420 @realDonaldTrump I spent the better part of my formative years surrounded by people that did damage and revelled in being pitiless, corrupt and violent. The idea that everybody just wants to be the good guy or even cares about justifying their actions to themselves in some way is laughable, sorry.

@Frankie

You are welcome to that opinion of course, and maybe you met some of the very rare exceptions to the rule. But I wouldnt say that is anywhere near the norm. Even when ive known people who enjoyed the misery of others thry still tended to justify it by seeing those people as deserving of it. They almost always have some reasoning, i cant say ive ever met someone who answered why they did aomething evil with "Because it was the evil thing to do"

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@freemo @crunklord420 @realDonaldTrump You're repeating yourself and nobody's talking about the norm.

Sorry for interfering in the "let's generalize everything into meaninglessness" party.

@Frankie so you criticize the serial killer example because it doesnt apply to the majority:

> not sure what appeals to a divine mandate made serial killers have to do with the majority of people

and now your criticism is I that I am talking about the majority (the norm, as in the majority of people)

> nobody's talking about the norm.

So in order to make a coherent in point in your mindsomehow I have to neither talk about the majority, or the fringe? Me thinks you really care very little about any points that arent your own at this point.

@Frankie Not quite yet but listening to you talk I'm getting there awfully fast.

@freemo
It was a rhetorical question, it's obvious that you can't keep up with the most simple train of thought without veering off into useless generalizations backed by whatever shit pops into your empty head.

>listening to you talk
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@Frankie

You do realize after getting called out on contradicting yourself and trying to frame it as if other people are stupid, then going on to have a temper tantrum, and a pretty sad looking one at that, isnt going to help you recover right?

@freemo I get that you're an egomaniac engaged in preformative posting but I assure you I don't care about "getting called out" or whether anybody happens to think that I "look stupid". This is a thread on the internet I continue to reply to because it amuses me, wreck me all you want, lmao.
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