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Most people are "nice", which is the same as being polite. Few will go out of their way to be good, which is not the same thing. Apathy to suffering (and by ex
by chmod775 5y ago
Most people are "nice", which is the same as being polite. Few will go out of their way to be good, which is not the same thing.
Apathy to suffering (and by extension other evil) is the same as being evil, especially when you are benefiting by it. Admittedly, good and evil is a spectrum - but there is a lot of apathy going around.
- denton-scratch 5y agoYeah, "nice" is a wishy-washy word. I think most of my fellow humans are decent, by which I mean that I think they want to do the right thing, provided it's not too costly. My faith in my fellow humans has been shaken lately, I'm afraid, by the number of people in my local grocers not wearing masks, despite a big sign on the door saying that mask-wearing is mandatory (it is - that's the law at the moment, around here).