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me_irl (sh.itjust.works)
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When you watch documentaries to educate yourself but the more you learn, the more you hate existing in a money-hungry society that values capital over human life.
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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Yup! This is why we need to take money out of the hands of the wealthy and give it to the people they exploited.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    it's deeper than that.

    money is the incentive to corruption. the actual cause of corruption is indifference to suffering of minorities and the disenfranchised.

    the answer is easy. you don't have to donate. you don't have to protest. all you have to do is call out the smallest corrupt mistreatment of your fellow human beings.

    see someone getting accosted by police because they are guilty of being black? start recording and ask the cops to identify themselves.

    see someone being mistreated at a store because they are trans? call them out on it. get angry, tell make sure they are aware of how people that act like they do are treated.

    also, don't stop going there. go there every day. make sure they aren't doing it again, and when they do, call them out on their bullshit again.

    the only way to stop people from behaving badly is to teach them that it's unacceptable behavior.

    a society that stands idly by while people in that society are attacked is doomed to suffer and die.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    "I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy."

    -- Gustave Gilbert (After interviewing Nazis post-WWII)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    people think economics is a science but it doesn’t consider human nature

    That's literally the whole field of behavioral economics.

    Also, economists don't care about individual human behavior. That's not what economics is. Economics is the study of broad trends in large populations. And for the most part, modeling these trends as people trying to maximize their own utility function is a useful tool to explain things.

    Also also, the point of science is to be measureable and falsifiable so that hypotheses can be tested and disproven, making the predictions of the field more accurate over time. Economists create falsifiable hypotheses. Often they are disproven. Economics gets better at modelling the real world over time. Economics is a science.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Maybe naturalizing the incapacity for critical thought to be heard is the problem?

    "You will be seen as malcontent"

    Good. There's no reason to be compliant to cruelty, if 1 person out of 1000 learns something it will be progress. Otherwise we just let the world forget empathy. Empathy, community, love, the things that allowed us to comunicate, to cooperate.

    To exist as Human beings, to protect us from the uncaring world.

    It is friendship that is the ultimate measure of progress. And friends don't let friends be nazis

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    see someone getting accosted by police because they are guilty of being black? start recording and ask the cops to identify themselves.

    see someone being mistreated at a store because they are trans? call them out on it. get angry, tell make sure they are aware of how people that act like they do are treated.

    I've literally never seen either of these things happen.

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