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This is an area where we don't know the answers yet, but we're fumbling along. The main question that is still up for debate is this: Are people really complet
by stareatgoats 3y ago
This is an area where we don't know the answers yet, but we're fumbling along. The main question that is still up for debate is this:
Are people really completely set in their personalities, so that we can say that this person IS a psychopath, that person IS a liar, I AM an upstanding citizen etc. The tendency for claiming such clearly comes from our current zeitgeist with its propensity for fixing labels to people, but to what extent has such fixed characteristics factually been true, and for what categories of labels, regardless of epoch?
We (or at least I) don't know.
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoThis joke was told to me as "Luigi the Bridge Builder", but has come in many other forms: https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcgonagall-the-bridge-builder-source-of-this-joke/420809 https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcgonagall-the-bridge-buil... Not the current zeitgeist, just how humans categorise things naturally.
- stareatgoats 3y agoHeh, that's actually one of my favorite Norm Macdonald jokes. Didn't know that it wasn't his invention though, thanks. And fwiw, yeah, this covers the conundrum nicely.