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> Being socially inept is [...] a personality flaw. That's a very dangerous and messed up reasoning. For a significant proportion of the population "society" is just a nasty scheme we put up with since we know not better way of not killing each other or exterminating ourselves as a species... Having to contort and torture one's personality just so you can be "socially adept" is a great pain, and when one occasionally…
> just a nasty scheme we put up with since we know not better way of not killing each other or exterminating ourselves as a species Sometimes I "have to do stuff to keep my wife happy." Once I discovered that I'm doing it because I want both her and myself to be happy , and stopped viewing it as an obligation, my life significantly improved. I learned to enjoy the ride. I think it made life a little better for the pe…
Re: Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”
#701I generally agree with you. My "begrudging" was mostly misdirected anger at the parent poster's attitude of labeling as "flawed personality" the act of very rarely and softly lashing out at society every now and then. Society only gets nasty when we forget its purpose and add too many restrictive rules on top of it and then rationalizations for those rules and so on...