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Humans are odd.
Apr 15, 2025 10:47 PM
KingreX32
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Humans are odd.
Sethiusalpha
And the other half by people who "just want to be left alone."
kmikl
The other half is done by people that don't care how much they get hurt so long as they harm others doing it.
WoodORama
I'm lookin' at you Pee Wee German. (Stephen Miller..it hurts to even type that)
Maxmorgan55
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OperatorWay
Some get their feelings of importance from helping others, while others get theirs from hurting others.
agapan
Look, everyone wants to feel important. It's a normal thing to want. (If it's a real quote, bet it's taken wildly out of context.)
mrmartini
It's from Act 1, Scene 1 of "The Cocktail Party," by T.S. Eliot. The whole line is, "Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm—but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."
Darkspire
Ego is the most dangerous thing there is.
androgenoide
Maybe more than half. I saw a display of torture devices once and it occurred to me that the people who used them were probably trying to prove their moral superiority over their victims.
michaelfire
Greed https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/oligarchy-open-what-happens-now-us-forced-confront-its-plutocracy
bemibet
That's the second-most depressing thing he wrote, after "Cats."
judithCat
Donald and so called "friends", Mr Eliots got you pegged....
Helixninja333
Imo, Grossly underestimated.
Strategicgnomer
Nah it's about right. He just left out that the other half is from dudes who want to be able to rape and murder at will with no repercussions.
ELKronos
He was a poet/playwright, not a statistician
JerzeeTomato
Peter Thiel said of Elon Musk: Elon desperately wants to save the world, but only if he's the one that gets to do it.
mannabananarama
In his 50s, having become wildly successful beyond imagination, Tolstoy spent years thinking about the meaning of his life. He ended up concluding that we are here to be kind to each other.
3Davideo
I generally see there being two types of people doing harm.
The first type doesn't care a thing about other people and only care about themselves. Someone could be helped or harmed, it makes no difference to them so long as they themselves benefit.
The second group outright sees the harming of other people itself as an objective. They'll even take a personal loss if it gets their target hurt.
3Davideo
We, as a society, have to deal with both, but the methods to do so are entirely different for the two types, and we shouldn't mistake one for the other as they're solidly distinct motivations.
duktayp
Humans = shit
FuzzyX
Black Mirror 7x4 "Plaything" covers that one nicely.
eathotdog
As a whole we very much dont, shitty people seek power
ILDL
Nah. We just got like a 20% of people drowning who want to drag the rest of us down. Another 20% being kinda just average shitty and self involved. The other 60% are on a gradient of good. News just doesn't cover little acts of kindness that make up every day life.
AllMaktAtTengilVarBefriare
This, people need to doomscroll less/not at all.
YAHURD
Umm… T S Eliot was an anti-Semite
Flraven
Wise to listen to the wisdom.
ILDL
Aite. Still a good quote. Put it under "Worst person you know made a good point"
Becker37
We all want to feel important. It's people who are selfish self-centered assholes with an inferiority complex that ruin everything.
QuartzPoker
I am important, my mom said so.
IceWeaselX
"I am learning everything I do is a big deal." - His Impeachedness Felonius von ShitzInPantz, April 2016
Instead of realizing he needs to consider consequences of bad actions, he instead focuses on the idea that things only matter because he's the one who did them.
Rockafella83
Either the ego is in the equation.. Might also be why Scandinavian countries have higher happiness rate, they don’t idolize success like North Americans do.
kaarbaakimgr
“Everyone wants to save the world, but nobody wants to help mom do the dishes.”
Becker37
And what of us that do?