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I mean they're killing enough people on their own

She's just like me fr fr

Yeah I was waiting for that ":3"

You couldn't help yourself could you

For me it's been the opposite, the less I mask the more I actually end up with people and in environments where I am accepted and cherished for the person I am, not who I force myself to be to fit in. Trying to do that nearly killed me.

Perfection

It is important to keep an eye on the blight, Morrowind taught us that

The term of sociopathy was retired in the 60's, so no, it doesn't mean anything. You aren't talking to anyone who was alive back then, so if you've heard it used it's been misused.

The idea that children are born with empathy is hilarious, while there are interesting baby studies suggesting this, any school yard or classroom will quickly dissuade anyone of that notion. Anyone who has gone to a school or worked as a teacher knows this.

And it's a good example to go into, because once again, the only thing that keeps a large subset of children from doing bad things is punishment, and usually that just makes them better at avoiding it.

And humans... come from children, and they largely don't change or mature as they grow up, studies who have tried to estimate the general mental age of humans find that they are stuck around 13-16 years old and stay there. And when we see how most people are just one bad day away from exploding, getting out and fighting someone in another car, or similar, that's not much of a surprise to anyone.

I don't know what "thin blue line" is, I assume it's American thing, but no when it comes to greater civilisations throughout history we actually do find that law enforcement looks about the same, and that people can be exceptionally cruel and callous even when they don't gain anything from doing it except the pleasure of inflicting pain, emotional or physical.

There's no evidence that people are naturally empathetic, and if they can be found to be so at the toddler stage we are effective at growing out of it. But you are right to point out some important point, we have invented Capitalism, probably the least empathetic system of governance we could come up with in which the individuals ability to take as much from everyone else is celebrated and deified - and whoever fails is seen as a loser who just didn't try hard enough. As expected, it's no manifestation of some innate empathy there.

Then there's the fact that at any given time there's at least a 100 different armed conflicts going on on the earth at any time. Oh, and currently a Genocide too.

Then there's our enormous system of law, which is always in an armsrace trying to illegalize the new ways in which people attempt to break the rules so that they can gain from taking from others, or just destroy what others have so that they have less. From giant corporations fighting each other, to simple neighbour feuds where two people simply cannot manage to coexist even if there weren't any problems between them to begin with - strife is the nature of humans on all levels and it needs constant arbitration to find out who was wrong, who was right, and how much they need to be punished.

And they certainly don't need any religious excuse for these things, they're quite happy to do it without any divine justification. The ills of religions are simply an extension of the ills of humanity.

I appreciate you pointing out that if you're on the internet you apparently should be ready to be insulted, because otherwise you're what, weak? Or naive? Once again the default human assumption is that we should expect there to be no consideration, probably that someone will hurt us, and if we don't like that, we better just toughen up because humanity is just so damn empathetic!

An interesting guess in a capitalist dystopia.

The answer is: almost none of them.

I'm coming over with a magnifier

That sounds kinda dystopic indeed

Aww, I liked mine better. Didn't know it was pronounced like that

I haven't seen a single Ed Sheran image where I didn't think: "I don't think this guy likes conflict". I'm pretty sure the dude is just trying his best not to piss anyone off because he's conflict averse, I doubt he needs the money.