Trying my hardest to be civil in this uncivilised world.

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  • The fact they’d say it out loud without understanding what that would entail is what would make me think they’re probably in the spectrum. I’m not saying they would be Machiavellian (if they’re saying it casually, because some YouTuber covered it this week and the “Dark Triad traits that make you irresistible!!!”, and without any convoluted reason for how this could help them reach their objectives, they simply couldn’t be), just comically socially inept to the point that a diagnosis might come in handy.








  • But being a bandit is not right, I doubt your parents were elevating being an immoral thief, for example. That just sounds like a descriptive sentence, not a prescriptive one. And of course we all have the capacity for selfish evil, some societies have it as their main value/MO. Chinese people, from my experience in the world and with many Chinese immigrants, are very prosocial, family oriented, collectivist and avoid violence. Literally never have I ever seen or heard of anyone get harassed or violently mistreated by Chinese immigrants either in my own country or the ones I’ve lived in. 🤷



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    I’m not, it’s just not something you understand. I meant Abrahamic monotheism, but that’s just because that’s the most complete uhh “understanding”. It’s not vague, it’s slightly debatable but it’s not open ended, and if we sat down and thought about God even without this Abrahamic background I’m sure we’d reach the same conclusions (unless we’re sociopaths trying to make excuses for ourselves). 🤷



  • I assume you’re a Westerner… Your entire culture was based on “might makes right”, it hasn’t done anything but make the world a worse place. No, what you need is values, what you need is belief in the value of righteousness. But people worship themselves, or money, and just chase the bag and sensations and that’s how you end up with a “society” of fearful, hateful, sociopathically selfish strangers. Once that’s set in, the “need” to choke people will disappear, but without it choking won’t do anything but just give more credence to the “might makes right” approach to life.



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    Christianity’s well has been poisoned from the very beginning (Jesus was a duty-bound monotheist, Christianity is a “you’re already good cause Jebus died!” state religion that co-opted the person they murdered), and regardless of the words of the prophets in the Bible (mixed with some garbage, ofc), Christians/Americans don’t read. And even if they did, the Church as a whole is Paulian in nature, not Jesus-inspired. And it makes entire sense since from the beginning Roman Catholicism was just a con, if we wanted to truly follow Jesus we’d just be neo-Jews.



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    Yeah, I think after “right-wing Christianity” (I’m not a Christian but Jesus was literally an anti-imperialist revolutionary, murdered by the powers-that-were 😭), monotheism is gonna be an understandable “hard sell” in America, lol. Thanks for respecting our choice to be religious! ✊