Everyone in the world will try to screw you. Screw them back more. It has a deterrent effect.
This is sad, dude. I'm not trying to dunk on you, but that kind of mindset is first, not even helpful or accurate , but also is going to make you start to feel really alienated from your community if you believe it.
The only people trying to screw you in this world are capitalists. Most everyone else is simply hurting others incidentally out of selfishness (which is often caused by being forced to fight for their survival in a capitalist society). Capitalists are telling you your work isn't worth enough money to get you by. Capitalists are raising your rent. Capitalists are increasing the costs of your medications, gas and food, even though we have all of the things we need and don't need to pay for any of it if we simply distributed it all fairly.
I'm not out to get you, even though you support someone who has said racist things about members of my community. I still want you to have a roof over your head and healthcare. Maybe you think that's naive and i'll get "steamrolled" by the real world. Let me assure you i am a full grown adult, married, with a house, and with a successful job and have yet to be punished for the random acts of kindness i have done for strangers.
To truly be strong you must understand when to use your strength. We use our strength to fight the people oppressing us both, not each other.
just wanna add that even hunter gatherers took care of people who couldn't contribute to their society btw. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/82-humans-took-care-of-the-disabled-over-500-000-years-ago
Theres selecfive pressure to do so as well. Most of the time another organism needing help is temporary. After the need has passed others become able to help in return.
That would be collective self-interest....say when an in-group all decides the same thing.. Even then someone in that group might have intention to screw you over and you should be watching for such....
But you should be wise about who you are spending your effort watching to screw you over, right? Your boss or landlord is gonna screw you over 5000 times more often and more harshly than anyone without any money or power. So logically wouldn't you want to spend your time watching for attacks from the place they come most frequently from?
I have to be a little rude to get into it, but yes. I am familiar with material historical analysis, im also familiar with a number of other modes of historical analysis and i absolutely fucking never rely on just one.
This is sad, dude. I'm not trying to dunk on you, but that kind of mindset is first, not even helpful or accurate , but also is going to make you start to feel really alienated from your community if you believe it.
The only people trying to screw you in this world are capitalists. Most everyone else is simply hurting others incidentally out of selfishness (which is often caused by being forced to fight for their survival in a capitalist society). Capitalists are telling you your work isn't worth enough money to get you by. Capitalists are raising your rent. Capitalists are increasing the costs of your medications, gas and food, even though we have all of the things we need and don't need to pay for any of it if we simply distributed it all fairly.
I'm not out to get you, even though you support someone who has said racist things about members of my community. I still want you to have a roof over your head and healthcare. Maybe you think that's naive and i'll get "steamrolled" by the real world. Let me assure you i am a full grown adult, married, with a house, and with a successful job and have yet to be punished for the random acts of kindness i have done for strangers.
To truly be strong you must understand when to use your strength. We use our strength to fight the people oppressing us both, not each other.
you literally cannot dunk on me bro, im explaining someone else's perspective.
who's perspective is it? Do you believe, counter to the science, that humans are inherently selfish?
Science can get fucked, but in this case, yes, humans are inherently selfish...
You really don't want my personal perspective on anything.
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just wanna add that even hunter gatherers took care of people who couldn't contribute to their society btw. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/82-humans-took-care-of-the-disabled-over-500-000-years-ago
Theres selecfive pressure to do so as well. Most of the time another organism needing help is temporary. After the need has passed others become able to help in return.
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oh yeah, agreeing with you. Just posting that for evidence.
That would be collective self-interest....say when an in-group all decides the same thing.. Even then someone in that group might have intention to screw you over and you should be watching for such....
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But you should be wise about who you are spending your effort watching to screw you over, right? Your boss or landlord is gonna screw you over 5000 times more often and more harshly than anyone without any money or power. So logically wouldn't you want to spend your time watching for attacks from the place they come most frequently from?
We are all individuals, free to choose our blind spots.
So you admit that you are wrong but don't want to go after the people who are actually hurting you? That's kinda pathetic ngl
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I have to be a little rude to get into it, but yes. I am familiar with material historical analysis, im also familiar with a number of other modes of historical analysis and i absolutely fucking never rely on just one.
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Why can "science get fucked"? How else can we measure the world if not through rigorous, repeated testing?
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