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randomuser  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why people are terrible

    I think my beef is more with media selling unrealistic images of people and relationships, more than the stupid people that buy into them and are deluded into thinking that they have some basis in reality.

Excellent comment as a whole, the only thing I kind of have a qualms with is this one because stupid can't help being stupid. In other words, being smart and being able to take advantage of someone(media), doesn't really make it ok to do it. As the higher intelligence, you should know better, and also realize you can probably benefit more by trying to educate rather than brainwash. When did the good of the whole stop mattering? Maybe when philosophers stopped being regarded as aristocrats?