So since the majority of consumers that drink red bull are sedentary, you’re saying Red Bull would be fine with losing 90% of their market share because their product was intended to be used before intense activity?
Or are they perhaps marketing to exactly that segment because they are as callous as people say?
I mean, diabetes also gives you wings?
If you want your mind blown, it’s because of lenses.
Most cameras show you a version of yourself that others are not actually seeing when they look at you.
And mirrors aren’t the same either… You look better in higher quality mirrors.
It wasn’t a bad habit dude, it was just your natural way of regulating your nervous system
Deflection beats introspection, eh? It always amazes me how easily insults come to the “morally righteous”.
At least now you know how people become bad - they don’t have the courage to question whether what they’re doing is actually good.
But social norms aren’t empathy. They are adhered to because of the punishment that will result if you break them. Before you have any chance of developing empathy or emotional intelligence, you are taught as a child that breaking social norms will result in punishment, and from then on your only motivation to follow them is fear of punishment.
And that is exactly the same mechanism as religious morality.
Sure, but so do atheists. They just believe their morality is special because they believe in the current social norms, within the current societal context. In 10 years they’ll be different, should a catastrophe happen it will shift completely. It’s just as flippant in its own way.
People who are into psychological violence aren’t against political violence, they simply don’t have the power to commit the latter so they stick to the former.
The seed of violence is the same. The scale is only limited by your access to power.
Anyone who is victimized is a victim, the existence of greater victims do not discount the existence of lesser victims. Victimization is a binary, not graded on a scale.
Social causes are not excuses to vent your pent-up anger at life because you are unable to live skillfully.
Let’s be honest, they do so by adhering to cultural norms with the exact same devotion and lack of scrutiny that religious people do.
“Why do we do it this way?” “We’ve always done it this way!” “Why is it wrong?” “Because it’s just wrong!”
The very small subset of actually moral people decide between good and bad choices not depending on social norms, not depending on laws, not even depending on morals or ethics, but by what motivations their actions arise from, whether they come from Ego or understanding.
You can never know whether an action is good or bad, you can only know whether your motivations are good or bad.
My experience with the majority of ideologues these days is that they do this.
They give you a false question which is essentially “You’re not with the baby bunny killers are you?” And the only answer is no, and the only reason they ask you is to relieve some of all the aggression they’re carrying around by forcing you to give the answer they want by posing a false question.
It’s a socially acceptable form of psychological violence. And all it does is make healthy people distance themselves from political movements that otherwise have the right opinions, but are using them the wrong way. Because of their Egos, they’re literally losing voters.
Yes, that’s why it isn’t a question at all but a way to pressure someone into saying what you want. It’s a social dominance tactic employed by dark triad personality types.
Which are exactly the types the “righteous causes” attract, because it allows them to express their desire for social dominance by hitting people over the head with things that nobody sensible would disagree with in the first place.
“You’re not a supporter of Genocide, are you?!” No you scintillating moron, nobody in their right mind is. And if they were, they wouldn’t answer your question truthfully anyway.
My opinions are not so frivolous as to be paraded around for social clout.
Oh, how fun. Now we’ll all be even more repressed because literally every interaction will be recorded and you better not do anything cringe.
But if someone says “Take my side or you’re a murderer” they don’t care about the kids, they just want to use their moral stance as an excuse for social dominance, which is why many people end up resisting “good causes” to defend themselves against the garbage energy that’s hidden behind their “morally justified” anger.
In reality someone either has a sensible opinion or they don’t, and you’re not gonna pressure anyone into changing their mind with force anyway, so it’s just a self-serving excuse to take your neuroticism out on other people.
When lawyers complain they got a bad rep
You can do what you want to do but there is no “nice” or “humane” way to exploit and kill animals.
It’s funny because no ideology will work if the people are corrupt, and no ideology will fail if the people have character.
They’re using divide and conquer to make us fight each other over concepts, when what we all really want is people in power with character and accountability - which is the one thing they won’t give us regardless of system.
I’ll take a good man with a bad ideology over a bad man with a good ideology any week in any era.
Of course, when you call people psycopath it’s not an insult, but if someone else were to say it to you, it would be.
And it’s like this with everything, isn’t it? But you’re the good guy.