the survival rate of kindness

the world is full of assholes.

that number exponentially increases everyday.
not because of assholes birthing new assholes. although that does happen.
but wait, maybe it is because they are birthing new assholes. but not in the biological sense.

every time a nice person interacts with an asshole, the odds of them turning into an asshole increase subtly with time.

if caught early enough, there is a way to halt the process. but it requires near total isolation from assholes. which is practically impossible.
there is a theory assholes can be converted through kindness. but the success rate of this particular intervention seems low.

statistically speaking, kindness and decency are on a path towards extinction.

maybe, in the grand scheme of things, we are doomed.

i once watched a video on youtube where the narrator explained that all humans are related, even if distantly. i don't know how accurate that is, honestly, because i did not look into it. it seems a reasonable conclusion, whether you adhere to the biblical sense of human creation, or the evolutionary sense of human creation.

so for the sake of this conversation, let's assume that statement is accurate.

i think it may explain the fact that human health, especially mentally, seems to degrade over the generations. if everyone is being inbred to increasing degree, there is bound to be biological and/or neurological consequences to that. unfortunately, this would seem to paint a grim prediction for the future of humans. think along the lines of the hapsburg jaw, but for mental instability. actually even the hapsburg line may have had mental decline along with physical, i don't remember it's been a while since i read about that.

at any rate, if decline is built into the hardware, so to speak, is it reasonable to expect anyone to be able to fix the decay we are already witnessing?
is asking someone to fix it only guaranteeing to make it worse, as we've done so many times in the past while trying to "fix" things?

thinking about it too long tends to bum me out.
try not to be too pessimistic.
if everything is falling apart, there is no better time to go find something that makes you happy. you know, before it's so fallen apart it's all gone.
you still got time.
just don't hurt anyone.
me, i like walking where there aren't any people. music's good, too.

intention versus outcome

does intent matter in the face of outcome?

if i intend something good to happen, and something terrible happens instead, does it matter that i meant well?

if i intend something terrible to happen but something good happens instead, does it matter i meant harm?

some might opine that it depended on how intense the outcome was, or how intense the intent was, or both. But does it?


if someone's attempt to kill you saved your life inadvertantly, would you suddenly forget they had wanted you dead?

some say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

the only thing to fear is fear, and everything else.

everywhere i look online someone is pushing something to be afraid of.

now don't get me wrong, there is such thing as a healthy amount of fear. it helps keep (some of) us from falling off ladders or walking into traffic.

but this is fear from all directions, weather, guns, climate, violence, politics, parenting, health.....

has it been like this forever, and it somehow whizzed safely over my head until recently?
or is this something relatively pink and new, but rapidly expanding?

when did the stereotypical person with a poster proclaiming the end is near become the status quo?

we get what we ask for in terms of media and entertainment, i suppose.

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At least for the moment it is. That may, of course, change in the future. The title that is, not the truth of it.

The truth is I have a LOT of opinions. Not just one.



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