• timestatic@feddit.org
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    10 hours ago

    You can say that about anything. This is a very philosophical thought but why do we act and do good deeds? There is an argument to be made that people only do good things so they feel better about themselves. But I don’t think you have to see this so one-dimensional. Both people can feel good. Do you think the mother is upset that this worker might have written about this genuinely nice story so it invalidates ones actions? Even if they were sincere?

    I really don’t believe you can ever do anything fully unconditional even if you say so. But win-wins exist. Trump would argue when one side wins another must lose. I don’t believe in this.

    What world do we live in where we shame people for sharing stories about kind acts? What do you want from the internet? Only trash? Only news and politics? Your view of the world is a very dark one and one I wish to never adopt.

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      7 hours ago

      No, I want truth and critical discourse.

      Which to the vast majority of users here, is trash. Because they see the world in one dimension and can’t acknowledge other people’s differences as anything more than evil that must be stamped out.

      Which for you, you can’t have truth or discussion without shaming other people I guess? Hence your need to frame my talking points as shaming people and my view must be very dark and awful.

      I see my views as positive, liberating, and optimistic. Because I think cutting out the subject feely weely fictional bullshit of life is what makes it worth living, and yeah I understand for other people, that is terrifying and scary and awful, because for them all life is is the feely weely bullshit and they are terrified of a world that isn’t entirely composed of it, especially people like Trump.

      I’d go so far to argue most of the posters on here are far more like Trump, than they are different than him, in that they want a world that is nothing more than a mirror-reflection of their own egoistical assumptions, and is totally allergic to any objectivity or truth that may upset them, and think any such idea or person espousing such idea is EVIL and BAD.

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        3 hours ago

        Okay then answer me if humans a unconditionally do anything really? If you do something nice and feel better afterwards you gain something from it. So what is something people do by volition without them benefiting in any way shape or form