Because people use hyperbole and aren’t always serious. How many times have you said “I’m gonna kill you”?
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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Never. I'd personally be afraid someone might take that seriously.
Though maybe that one's cultural and said more casually where you're from. I've heard it in TV shows, I guess.
How many times have you said that to a complete stranger? People generally use hyperbole with people who understand the hyperbole - the more extreme the hyperbole the more you need to trust the person would understand it. It's the social contract
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fps
I think there’s a part of our brains that treats these stories as fiction—in particular, the kind of folk fiction used to reinforce community mores. The strength of our reaction to such stories signals how strongly we support the standards, not necessarily what we think should be done in real life to those who violate them.
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It's a lot easier to feel like you're not involved when you're behind a screen hundreds of miles away.
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A lot of perceived suffering in this world can make a person feel as though a lot of people do on fact deserve to die.
I have to ask, is this about the TiL post regarding Soviet Labor camps? Because I saw that right after this.
Partly. But it’s been building up in me for the past few months. Like I legitimately see it every day on lemmy.
It's the one thing we all deserve, the great equalizer. That's not what you are asking, I know but still.
We judge others more harshly than ourselves or our friends and family, it's often a tribal artifact of the environment our species grew up and evolved in through its infancy that has in part informed our acceptable behaviors as a social species who relies on groups for survival (justice, altruism, fairness, social contract, etc).
Sometimes it's hyperbole, sometimes it's incorrectly treating people different than ourselves as less than instead of different to, and sometimes someone violates common morality so abjectly that capital punishment is a popular acceptable outcome.
This is human nature. It's the same reason you had 20 year olds sucker punching 70 year old asian women during lockdown. Cowardice and a need to lash out.
No. It may be the nature of some subset of people. Those people should die.
Idk anyone who can't figure this out deserves to die.
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Screw this bullshit, stop trying to normalize the deadly atrocious behavior from these right wing zealots
Yeah. The right wing zealot behaviour of killing anyone you don’t like.
Oh no, won’t someone think of the people speed running the destruction of our planet and causing suffering to so many innocent people.
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I don't know about others, but I don't think anybody deserves to die necessarily. It is faaaaar too merciful a fate for horrible people. I believe the worst of humanity - rapists, murderers, child abusers, etc. - deserve to live long, painful, oh so horrible lives.
My choice would be to put them inside of a 3 meter cube of steel, welded shut, with only a hamster bottle for water, a hole in the bottom for waste, and a nutrient paste dispensing chute. When the prisoner eventually dies, it is bury the whole thing out in the desert to be their unmarked tomb.
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Because they're a stranger. I don't know them and probably never will. Oh they did something shitty that cost someone else their life? Good, they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell.
Because I don't know them and they commited something I think is evil. There's no purpose in me humanizing them. I humanize the actual people in life I interact with.
Also its impotent rage
Thats brainless tbh. Thats the type of mindset that makes everyone a slave to their emotions because they all just react without thinking deeply/compassionately.
Its simply a lack of self control and critical thinking that leads people to lose their empathy
Ok. Don't really care about what some random asshole online thinks I'm just explaining to OP.
I'm not changing.
No worries bud consider it an explanation to OP to nullify yours
Well thats to be expected. Does a fish swim?