derpyderpins
In the Service of the Queen
- Sep 19, 2023
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Before on here, I've tried encouraging people by saying things like:
I don't think so, anymore. I've tried to be good to people, but I don't think it matters on a small scale like this.
I'm starting to think the systems in society and the world around us are flexible, and even if you give some, if you're a normal, insignificant person, the system as a whole won't even notice. It compensates, adjusts, and continues on in the same way. You're tiny positive will be absorbed by a tiny negative elsewhere. Net 0.
People are going to keep being the same selfish people they always were. We're resilient, like cockroaches. We just keep surviving and moving towards what we want. The details and what happens on the way are of minimal consequence. The base drive and primal instinct will overpower the humanity at the important points. People let you down and turn on you when it's better for them.
I dunno. The question is, do you think we're able to matter at all on a day-to-day? Can the little people do anything?
Why do we matter?
Say we don't have personal reasons to live like family or pets, why do we matter? I hear people go on about how 'our life is valuable' but why? I genuinely cant think of a reason
sanctioned-suicide.net
The value you have to the world around you can spread beyond just your family and the people living in your home. As long as you aren't harming people, you are at that nominal value or 0 net value. Now say you go out about your day and you get something at the store, and you smile at the person checking you out and say "thank you", and they were having a shitty day but your manners made them forget about it for just a second, you just provided non-zero value to someone else. Beyond that, if you go home and post on here and someone who is struggling relates or you at least make them think about something in a way they hadn't, you've provided some non-zero value. Right now, typing this out has helped me clarify my thoughts on this subject, so you've provided non-zero value to me through this interaction.
I don't think so, anymore. I've tried to be good to people, but I don't think it matters on a small scale like this.
I'm starting to think the systems in society and the world around us are flexible, and even if you give some, if you're a normal, insignificant person, the system as a whole won't even notice. It compensates, adjusts, and continues on in the same way. You're tiny positive will be absorbed by a tiny negative elsewhere. Net 0.
People are going to keep being the same selfish people they always were. We're resilient, like cockroaches. We just keep surviving and moving towards what we want. The details and what happens on the way are of minimal consequence. The base drive and primal instinct will overpower the humanity at the important points. People let you down and turn on you when it's better for them.
I dunno. The question is, do you think we're able to matter at all on a day-to-day? Can the little people do anything?