3 ms·
I dislike that phrase. I've heard it a lot. Believing everyone is out to get you. Nobody is out to get you, because you're a nobody. There's no grand conspi
by desine 5y ago
I dislike that phrase. I've heard it a lot. Believing everyone is out to get you. Nobody is out to get you, because you're a nobody. There's no grand conspiracy to take down some internet shitposter.
People are out for themselves. And if someone is in your way, and takes some hit because you have the Chevy Suburban and they're on a Honda SuperCub, so be it. It's not that you hate their beautiful red and beige paintjob, it's that they were in the wrong lane at the wrong time when you decided to overtake whoever was in front of you. Colloquial pronouns, of course.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoThat is a good point. I guess a better way of saying it is that I assume (or hope) most people are behaving mostly well most of the time and at least in the short term interest of most people. This is also an assumption that is a luxury due to me living and growing up in a stable and prosperous country, and I can certainly see different circumstances producing different mindsets. But I also think there is plenty of good being done by organizations (at least the ones I’m familiar with in the US) to justify giving them some benefit of the doubt.
- briefcomment 5y agoI think this is naive. Individuals are probably overwhelmingly good, but a corporation generally gets away with as much as it possibly can. I think this is because you can diffuse personal responsibility to a much greater extent when you are acting on behalf of a corporation. Corporations probably do good things insofar as they provide them cover to act increasingly selfishly. An individual on the other hand runs into their own conscience much more frequently when they're acting on their own behalf.