• Zephorah@discuss.online
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    2 days ago

    This seems to be the collective expression across media: you’re dumb [not you, krashmo, a collective “you”], either wholly or within the context of X, so you deserve bad things.

    I don’t disagree when it’s something that only affects that individual, but the statements pass the buck and create a passivity regarding problems that effect more than that individual. This isn’t a hold my beer moment where someone injures themselves or an anger management issue that loses a job for that one man. The dumb of 1/3 of the population, 1/3 of a society, is thus absorbed and accepted by all with these dismissive, passive statements. To be fair, acceptance is the easier path.

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      2 days ago

      It’s not about wishing pain on others it’s about hoping they will learn. If words fail then perhaps pain will work.

      It’s also not reasonable to expect people to be perfectly patient with their idiotic neighbors who categorically refuse to engage the rational parts of their minds. That’s not a human response to self destructive stupidity. A human response is to ostracize the offenders until they stop endangering the group with their poor decisions.