Huh?mechanixis said:
Now wait just a sec......101194 said:
That's not entirely tru......MaxTheReaper said:
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!mechanixis said:
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Poll: People are Terrible.
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People suck, join the club. Actually there is a new political party being formed; "The People who Hate People Party" (PHPP for short) but you're all going to be there so I'm not going.
I don't necessarily think people are terrible as in they have ill or malicious intent, i just think a good chunk of the population is fucking stupid.
Interesting thread- I like the idea of your black and white poll.
I'm going to have to go with false on this one- humans as a race are terrible, but while people in general are often misguided and stupid, I don't think they're terrible (which I take to mean inherently evil).
Like someone up there^ said, assholes just tend to be a lot more noticeable. I work at a DVD store and I always remember the one woman who went nuts over a $1 late fee, but I won't remember the 15 friendly customers before her. That idicates that nice customers/people are the norm because I notice them less, so I guess, generally, people are just fine.
*Hums the Richard Cheese cover of People=Shit*
I'm going to have to go with false on this one- humans as a race are terrible, but while people in general are often misguided and stupid, I don't think they're terrible (which I take to mean inherently evil).
Like someone up there^ said, assholes just tend to be a lot more noticeable. I work at a DVD store and I always remember the one woman who went nuts over a $1 late fee, but I won't remember the 15 friendly customers before her. That idicates that nice customers/people are the norm because I notice them less, so I guess, generally, people are just fine.
*Hums the Richard Cheese cover of People=Shit*
Why do the new people always quote Yahtzee?
But it basically boils down to some people are some people aren't. There's this little thing I like to call the "grey area." Kind of comes inbetween black and white.
But it basically boils down to some people are some people aren't. There's this little thing I like to call the "grey area." Kind of comes inbetween black and white.
Ok, for anyone who has read John Marsden's 'Tomorrow Series', you should know what I am talking about.
"Evil is a creation of man."
This also means that good must also be an invention of man as you cannot have one without the other. And here-in lies the crux of the point, people being bad is a good thing because it means people can choose to be good. So basically there wouldn't be good things if there wasn't evil.
Edit: I chose good, 'cause, by my standards (my idea (correct idea mind you) of ethics), everyone is good, just not relative to everyone else.
EDIT2: Oh for heaven's sake, I hope you all die in a fire made of happiness, just so that you can see the happiness all around you before you leave this world you horribly depressed people. On a semi-tanjent, aren't storms just awesome!?!?
"Evil is a creation of man."
This also means that good must also be an invention of man as you cannot have one without the other. And here-in lies the crux of the point, people being bad is a good thing because it means people can choose to be good. So basically there wouldn't be good things if there wasn't evil.
Ah, wrong, sort of. Logic can be used as a framework for a moral system but some morals must be chosen as good or bad and given value in there respective fields, so that you can LOGICALLY choose which is more morally right by your standards. Logic alone is not morally anything.BonsaiK said:
Edit: I chose good, 'cause, by my standards (my idea (correct idea mind you) of ethics), everyone is good, just not relative to everyone else.
EDIT2: Oh for heaven's sake, I hope you all die in a fire made of happiness, just so that you can see the happiness all around you before you leave this world you horribly depressed people. On a semi-tanjent, aren't storms just awesome!?!?
I like humans, but most people are jackasses. Hopefully we'll eventually get past that. Maybe once we're out IN SPACE!!!
I don't think that humans are terrible, but I don't think we're saints either. There are some really good people and some really bad apples, but most fall in a gray area, methinks.
I CALL COP-OUT.Disaster Button said:
The thing is, even shades of gray are made up of black and white. So unless you think that EVERYTHING is EXACTLY 50% black and 50% white, you therefore must believe that there is more of one or the other. So, which is it?
Damn you and youre quick way of twisting my metaphor.mechanixis said:
But if you wanna know I think more people are terrible than are nice. But it still doesn't come under the "everyone is terrible" banner or the "everyone is a rainbow vomiting unicorn made of sunshine" banner so that's why I choose the grey.
I live in a town a town that has two pedophiles in it is filled with racist, druggys and religious nuts that say your going to hell for not being in there religion. A town that took part in the race war's of the 60's beating the shit out of black's and generally anyone who wasn't white.
Last winter I found a Swastika carved in the ice of the town lake.
To cut threw the crap cake here people are hopeless, worthless and we will be are own undoing.
Did I mention I'm a pessimists and a cynic.
Last winter I found a Swastika carved in the ice of the town lake.
To cut threw the crap cake here people are hopeless, worthless and we will be are own undoing.
Did I mention I'm a pessimists and a cynic.
I think most people are good, but it is the jackass that tends to make the their asshole qualities shine through the crowd of generally good people that is society. The general idea that most people are assholes causes other people to be on the edge and waiting for an asshole to walk up and be an asshole to them, so they prepare themselves mentally and when you do walk up to them with good intentions they treat you like an asshole cause they are expecting you to be like everyone else and be an asshole. Its a self feeding type thing.
my answer is true, from personal experience if someone can get something by walking all over you they'll do it with little or no hesitation. and after being trod on a few too many times it's hard to see that mythical good side in anyone.
I would only classify 3 people i know as good or even trying to be. everyone else i know has a bad streak a mile wide and some are even proud of it.
and as far as other people in society being good or tryin to be, obviously they aren't trying hard enough.
especially if they've got money to spare, and aren't helping the people who're starving on their very doorsteps let alone anything farther reaching.
I would only classify 3 people i know as good or even trying to be. everyone else i know has a bad streak a mile wide and some are even proud of it.
and as far as other people in society being good or tryin to be, obviously they aren't trying hard enough.
especially if they've got money to spare, and aren't helping the people who're starving on their very doorsteps let alone anything farther reaching.
The poll isn't black and white absolutism, though. I chose false because it encompasses every possibility where people are not terrible. People can still be pretty bad without being terrible.mechanixis said: