Super emotional behavior in general.

A lot of people are seemingly completely unable or unwilling to take a step back from their own position and look at a situation at least slightly more rationally. Everything is only seen and interpreted as how it affects them.

The cashier is not super friendly? Must be, that he's an asshole, can't be that he just had a bad day.

There's a minor inconvenience to me because of some public good? Well, fuck the public, I want mine.

An argument with a friend, and I'm already angry? Better get even more angry and start screaming, that'll show him!

I make lot of decisions on emotions too. The joy of helping people. The pain of seeing others suffer. Admiration of what people create. Fear for someones safety. Anger of hearing about unfairness.

What I don't get is why so many of these "emotional" people dont seem to have any emotions like that. How is it to live like that? Only living with emotions like fear for oneself and oneself only? This isn't a fight between logic on one side and emotion on the other. Not science versus beliefs either. It is empathy versus greed. The only emotion these assholes has is a fear of losing whats "theirs", I'm pretty sure. And if scientific reasoning says its smart to share, of course they disregard it.

We evolved in a climate where that reasoning worked well for our species’ expansion. The amount of time we’ve had written language is only a blink of an eye compared to our species history, so of course we are maladapted to the modern world.

People who don’t use emotional thinking are the exception rather than the rule.

Because we've been superstitious for a long time as a species. When we didn't have anything that we do have now, some thousand years ago, all we had to go on was whether it was by God or some other made up reason for why things happened the way they did.

It's like shouting into the void expecting an echo. If you can't change the world for the better at least leave a mark. At least that was how I felt trashing a park bench when I was 13. It's probably the same trail of thought.

It’s just tribalism

The primary goal is to show off how much of a team member they are, by picking on some “other”. It strengthens their ties to their group, by having an enemy to unite against.

Its because there are some that believe that their freedom does not encroach on the freedoms of other, and need a polite reminder that their actions have consequences, and that we're all part of a larger whole, no matter how much we pretend otherwise.

Like when people keep asking "is so and so gay" (usually a celebrity). I mean, unless you're trying to date that person, what difference does it make. Whatever they do behind closed doors - you're probably not getting an engraved invitation to join in, so give it a rest!!

Hurt people, hurt people.

Monkeys with guns

Because other people are stupid and wrong about everything. (!) At least that's how most people view everyone else in the world.

Prison sex. Not literally that's just a song by Tool, but basically someone hurt me so I'm gonna hurt you.

They aren't bright enough to figure out that just continues the cycle.

Harm done to them by other people, and justifiably and rationally looking for answers to how/why/what/where/when/who, so they can make the harm less likely to be repeated in the future by altering their behavior appropriately.

With special emphasis on the "who", because it's easier, when they should be focusing on the "how" and "why". The "why" part is the most important, but also hardest to tackle.

Judge weak people by their natures. Wiser ones, by their goals.

Good life advice from Francis Bacon :)

Tom who?

With limited resources, this makes sense. If half the population gave away all their money, they other half would have all the food/housing/etc. We work for potential resources to survive, and on that premise having more potential resources saved for our own future (when the future is so variable) makes sense. That doesn't mean people don't donate/give things they aren't using/don't use anymore, but greed is apart of capitalism and barter economies.

At least in the West,. Christianity played a part in that.

Things like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy have been changing that though

There's a weird disconnect between humans and nature in general.

It's against the law to let animals suffer to death in cases of injury, sickness, etc. Euthanasia is almost mandated. But the same thing for humans is a horrible crime, even if the person explicitly asked for it. That's insane.

Something something "you're paid more for what ya know/your expertise on something vs just being an easily replacable cog in a machine".

Not saying I agree with it all that much, but I think that's the general idea, anyways.

It takes more work to get the 3hour job, so the job itself is easier. It takes less work to get the 12hour job, so the job is harder.

Less people can get to the "easier" job, so those people are seen as more valuable.

I've yet to see the big wigs even do 3 hours of actual work during a work day, let alone the kind of physical labor that factory floor workers have to perform all day long. In the last company I worked for (and I'm now retired) there were 34 managers on my floor, and 3 of us doing sales, customer service, repair, delivery, and distribution for the company. The managers mostly spent time on Amazon, but often had meetings to decide what they could do to prompt us to work harder with more duties.

It really doesn’t. Sure, some designer in an ivory tower may have designed the product, but they sure as hell aren’t the person that builds hundreds of them.

Oh so you think you're too cool for that? You've never looked at a jar and thought "I wonder what that would feel like in my ass?"

that they exist or that people think they look good

Simple: For most people (not everyone) even the thought of it releases stupid happy drugs in brain. It suppresses the feeling of disgust very effectively. Free will my ass, we are chained to those brain chemicals.

Weirdly enough a lot of humans are very opinionated on who are allowed to think about who, even if the brain chemicals doesn't give a shit. Its all a big mess really and earth would probably be better off if humans didn't produce these chemicals.

Why are you braking?! I find myself asking that out loud at the driver in front of me too many times. Sometimes I see drivers in other lanes doing it too. It's as if they were driving a runaway vehicle that accelerates on its own.

At the end of the day, we’re all just dumb, stupid animals. Natural selection may have given us brains with more folds, but the process of selection cares not for things that don’t impact immediate survival. Anxiety, depression, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, cancer… the list goes on. Those things don’t matter for selection because they don’t really have an impact on our ability to continue our gene line.

It’s evident in the way our society works. Everyone, at the end of the day, just wants to get by. Some feel that in order to do so, they have to be better off than everyone else. They have to have the big stick. Meanwhile most of us would be happy if we didn’t have to struggle to pay rent or buy food.

We’re no better than viruses at the end of the day. We’re just unique (or maybe not so?) that we can comprehend the thought.

I'm always amazed about how we use the term "humanly" to express kindness. doesn't seems to fit the actual behaviour of the species indeed.