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Originally Posted by Wrexify
This kind of stuff is really interesting to me... I have a few "friends" who are big misanthropes and I never really understood their thought processes.
Do you find that it's hard to explain why you feel the way that you do? The misanthropes I know can give me hundreds of examples of human idiocy that get them angry, but never explain why it bothers them so much. Vice versa, they don't really understand why/how I choose to ignore it and I guess I don't really have an explanation for them either.
Maybe I'm reading into it too much and no one really has any concrete answers.
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It bothers them because it proves that their superiority is an inane dream. In their hubris, the self righteous misanthrope just cannot admit that superior intellect just isn't a requirement to get along in life, or to be happy. More often than not greater intellect just leads to greater misery for self and others. Misanthropes simply hate themselves because they are miserable and want to blame anybody but themselves for their misery. This self hatred just gets turned outward.
Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. Get over yourselves. Oh, and waaaaaaaahhhh!!!!!
Hate is a useless emotion
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Originally Posted by MSD
Look at the Milgram experiment. It's always touted as evidence of what people will do simply because an authority figure tells them to, but I see it equally as proof of what people are willing to do when absolved of responsibility. If the "victim" were hooked up to an EKG and flatlined, I have little doubt that most people would continue to shock him. We've been so heavily conditioned to follow the rules rather than think for ourselves that we have no sense of what's right unless our secular or religious leaders tell us so.
I dislike people as a whole, but I give each individual a chance. That make sense?
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None of us is as dumb as all of us, right? Who said that?