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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 8 months ago (16 children)

This may get downdooted to oblivion, but I think some of this is human nature. It is abhorrent, and something we need to strive to fix, but it is rather natural for people to think that their own situation is typical -- because for them, it is. Every exemplar that a privileged person will have is also a privileged exemplar -- until, of course, something like this happens.

And as a further consequence, it is extremely difficult to convince someone that their personal situation is not the norm. Everyone wants to be the main character and ultimately believes that they are.

Not sure what the solution is.

[–] madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Provide testing for logic, critical thinking, and empathy in order to vote?

Stop making excuses for stupid people that hold back the progress of mankind?

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

then who determines what is logical or empathetic ? i hope ur joking...

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but we can all, even the stupid, agree on a few things, surely?

[–] shiftymccool@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Gather a handful of random people from your neighborhood and try to decide where to go for lunch. Now, make it several hundred million people from everywhere and have them come up with the definition of "stupid".

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