• Shanmugha@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Ooh, that’s my biggest beef with humanity: we most definitely can. The percentage of “born destructive” people is fairly low, and most dumb shit done by humans is something they learned to do (doing here includes thinking and emoting)

    But for some reason it still has not happened

    • arendjr@programming.dev
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      19 hours ago

      Sorry if I’m jumping on a tangent here, I may have been triggered 😅

      I don’t really agree with the premise that it hasn’t happened yet. Not only are there few people with truly destructive tendencies, but I see most kids (regardless of gender) being raised quite nicely. Sure they may still do stupid stuff sometimes (who doesn’t?) but that doesn’t take away from them being nice overall.

      In my mind, the biggest beef with humanity is apathy/nihilism. Some people truly believe their actions have no consequences or if they do they don’t care about them. To me, this is a failure in education and one I attribute to a lack of spiritual awareness. Indeed thinking and emoting are part of that as acts of our inner spirit.

      This is the reason I started my Philosophy of Balance blog, hoping to inspire people to become more aware of themselves and their actions again.