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Trusting your neighbor already is a mistake. Well people like me benefit from society as I can benefit from people being naive.

by zwnow 2y ago

InsideOutSanta 2y ago
>Well people like me benefit from society as I can benefit from people being naive Then, you acknowledge that you benefit from empathy. But only so long as people do not detect that you are not participating in mutual understanding and reciprocation. Once they notice your lack of genuine engagement, your previously gained benefits will disappear. On the other hand, people who exhibit empathy towards others will continue to benefit. Do you see that, by your own logic, empathy is beneficial to society?
mdp2021 2y ago
> already is a mistake No. Very clearly I meant "to be able to trust your neighbour is an asset; not being able to trust your neighbour is a liability", which is a plain analytic basic reply to your question. The statement you replied with has nothing to do with what I have written. If there was a misunderstanding, instead of just bad communication, it may reveal why you see things in a twisted way - but then know it is really a faulty perspective, not the state of things. Of course you can be """benefiting""" from the lack of society, the "frontier anarchy" in which you implicitly declare are in: were it a society, you would have received since a very early age a credible absolute threat of violence, or shunning, which would have destroyed an advantage of profiting inappropriately.
WD-42 2y ago
> Well people like me benefit from society as I can benefit from people being naive. So you’re a leech on society, got it.
- zwnow 2y ago
  I even contribute, by paying taxes. Weird leech
  - WD-42 2y ago
    Because you want to or because you are too much of a coward not to? Something tells me you’d be face down in a ditch somewhere if the world actually reflected your ideal instead of the comfy one we live in where you get to take advantage of the “naive”.
    - zwnow 2y ago
      Taxes in my country get automatically paid before I even see the money, so I dont rlly have a choice

Trusting your neighbor already is a mistake. Well people like me benefit from society as I can benefit from people being naive.

by zwnow 2y ago

Trusting your neighbor already is a mistake. Well people like me benefit from society as I can benefit from people being naive.

InsideOutSanta 2y ago

>Well people like me benefit from society as I can benefit from people being naive Then, you acknowledge that you benefit from empathy. But only so long as people do not detect that you are not participating in mutual understanding and reciprocation. Once they notice your lack of genuine engagement, your previously gained benefits will disappear. On the other hand, people who exhibit empathy towards others will continue to benefit. Do you see that, by your own logic, empathy is beneficial to society?

mdp2021 2y ago

> already is a mistake No. Very clearly I meant "to be able to trust your neighbour is an asset; not being able to trust your neighbour is a liability", which is a plain analytic basic reply to your question. The statement you replied with has nothing to do with what I have written. If there was a misunderstanding, instead of just bad communication, it may reveal why you see things in a twisted way - but then know it is really a faulty perspective, not the state of things. Of course you can be """benefiting""" from the lack of society, the "frontier anarchy" in which you implicitly declare are in: were it a society, you would have received since a very early age a credible absolute threat of violence, or shunning, which would have destroyed an advantage of profiting inappropriately.

WD-42 2y ago

> Well people like me benefit from society as I can benefit from people being naive. So you’re a leech on society, got it.

zwnow 2y ago
I even contribute, by paying taxes. Weird leech
- WD-42 2y ago
  Because you want to or because you are too much of a coward not to? Something tells me you’d be face down in a ditch somewhere if the world actually reflected your ideal instead of the comfy one we live in where you get to take advantage of the “naive”.
  - zwnow 2y ago
    Taxes in my country get automatically paid before I even see the money, so I dont rlly have a choice