▲ 682 ▼ Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago by TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world 180 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) I agree entirely with your second sentence! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SomeSphinx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) Ayy glad you agree. It can be hard to remember, but most people really do want to do the right thing. Sometimes, posts like this make us forget that humanity advances forward in spite of the consequences because we as a species want to make the world a better place, even if some of us are evil I feel like humanity as a whole is inherently good. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* True but also easily misled because many people will naturally gravitate towards many things that aren't geopolitics, ethics and existentialism and with enough fancy words people can go rogue for long enough periods of time to cause great chaos... and now we have nukes and drones and man-made ecological catastrophes and whatnot, idk, it's scary to say the least. Hopefully we collectively enter the next century with less confusion and less compounded, unexplored trauma. 🙏 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SomeSphinx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) Ayy glad you agree. It can be hard to remember, but most people really do want to do the right thing. Sometimes, posts like this make us forget that humanity advances forward in spite of the consequences because we as a species want to make the world a better place, even if some of us are evil I feel like humanity as a whole is inherently good. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* True but also easily misled because many people will naturally gravitate towards many things that aren't geopolitics, ethics and existentialism and with enough fancy words people can go rogue for long enough periods of time to cause great chaos... and now we have nukes and drones and man-made ecological catastrophes and whatnot, idk, it's scary to say the least. Hopefully we collectively enter the next century with less confusion and less compounded, unexplored trauma. 🙏 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* True but also easily misled because many people will naturally gravitate towards many things that aren't geopolitics, ethics and existentialism and with enough fancy words people can go rogue for long enough periods of time to cause great chaos... and now we have nukes and drones and man-made ecological catastrophes and whatnot, idk, it's scary to say the least. Hopefully we collectively enter the next century with less confusion and less compounded, unexplored trauma. 🙏 permalink fedilink source parent