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You're confusing kindness with being a pushover. You can be kind and self-respecting at the same time. Your last two comments here make me suspect you suffer from some kind of traumatic abuse you haven't had the chance to poperly recover from yet.
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don't you want to be in the world where people are kind? or you rather be in a world where everyone is selfish? Heard of categorical imperative?
Yes I heard of it. Considering we already live in a selfish world, while people preach to be kind just shows me how ignorant people are. Kindness is something the poor or the sick need. Coming from the poorer side of things I never received kindness. I've seen my mum struggle in life just to get me and my brother some new clothing. People are pretentious and while a small few geow richer and richer, we are out here c…
I agree with you, it's disgustingly condescending for a society to wag its finger at you and preach that you should be kind to one another while it turns around and sends its cops to harass you in your neighborhood, or to take from you taxes and give you little in return and instead spend it bombing people you don't know, or enforces upon you what work you are or aren't allowed to do or when.
What I wonder at is the failure of people who actually ascribe to unselfish value systems to prevent this false form from speaking for them and becoming the true form in the eyes of everyone. No wonder you find it inherently contradictory!
I wonder how those of us that actually ascribe to unselfish value systems might recover our ideologies from this libel.
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You're confusing kindness with being a pushover. You can be kind and self-respecting at the same time. Your last two comments here make me suspect you suffer from some kind of traumatic abuse you haven't had the chance to poperly recover from yet.
I gave up on humans and this system. There are no good experiences to be made with others. Everything is a transaction nowadays and there is no altruism. Believe it or not, I am an altruist because I dont care anymore. I dont expect anything from anyone, I dont strive to be happy because its impossible to be happy with the current state of the world (at least im not ignorant enough to try and be happy). I am nice to…
I have a similar ideology to yours but I'm not sad like this because I'm not experiencing what appears to be clinical depression.
You should seek medical intervention, it saved my life and it might save yours, which is worth saving. Intervention didn't pull the wool over my eyes about how flawed our society is or how selfish neoliberal capitalism tries to force everyone to be, it just gave me the psychological tools to maintain enough optimism to keep me alive and having enough energy to try to make changes, even if they're small local ones.
> People gave up, we are locked in a system voting for people that don't represent our interests.
There are other ways to live. Just because a huge majority of people live in these systems doesn't mean you have to as well, plenty have "opted out" without ending their lives. You could find some people living alternatively through a Food Not Bombs chapter near you, or some other anarchistic or alternative living group.
The dominant social structure isn't designed for people like you and me to thrive and be ourselves and so it's totally ok to find other people like us that want to live differently and let everyone else do whatever bizarre thing they're going to do with these enforced ways of living modern society presents.
This speaks to me. So much of our life circumstances are beyond our control (parents, genetics, geography, society, wider economy, etc.) It's humbling, how much of our success or failure is influenced by pure chance.
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You're confusing kindness with being a pushover. You can be kind and self-respecting at the same time. Your last two comments here make me suspect you suffer from some kind of traumatic abuse you haven't had the chance to poperly recover from yet.
I gave up on humans and this system. There are no good experiences to be made with others. Everything is a transaction nowadays and there is no altruism. Believe it or not, I am an altruist because I dont care anymore. I dont expect anything from anyone, I dont strive to be happy because its impossible to be happy with the current state of the world (at least im not ignorant enough to try and be happy). I am nice to…
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I gave up on humans and this system. There are no good experiences to be made with others. Everything is a transaction nowadays and there is no altruism. Believe it or not, I am an altruist because I dont care anymore. I dont expect anything from anyone, I dont strive to be happy because its impossible to be happy with the current state of the world (at least im not ignorant enough to try and be happy). I am nice to…
I know right? I don't know what all other people replying to you are doing. I just play Cyberpunk, I finished it yesterday. I guess I'll play the new Dying Light next. Some people play golf. I don't know what other "happiness" there can be, though I am interested if anyone has anything to share that I don't know.
Playing Factorio or Satisfactory?
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I know right? I don't know what all other people replying to you are doing. I just play Cyberpunk, I finished it yesterday. I guess I'll play the new Dying Light next. Some people play golf. I don't know what other "happiness" there can be, though I am interested if anyone has anything to share that I don't know.
> I don't know what other "happiness" there can be Playing Factorio or Satisfactory?
Jimmy Maher wrote about them recently https://www.filfre.net/2025/09/choose-your-own-adventure/