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> Why do people wish for apocalypses? To validate ideology.

• grkvlt 9y ago
  Some people just want to watch the world burn?
• breatheoften 9y ago
  Not necessarily -- if I believe your actions make everyone but yourself worse off, it's not entirely unreasonable for me to choose an outcome where I'm a little worse off than I would be in order to ensure that your benefit is reduced or taken away. This outcome is common in situations where trust does not exist between parties -- my action might actually be required to motivate you to seek to rebuild trust. I can easily interpret your characterization of me with the phrase "wishing for the apocalypse" as you overstating the relative importance of your loss vs mine.
  • ecdavis 9y ago
    If the premise of the question is invalid then my answer is irrelevant.