• @[email protected]OP
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    34 days ago

    I do find that a lot of “bully” type people seem miserable, angry, combatative. That’s likely what drives their lack of empathy though, they don’t care about hurting others because they think in some roundabout way that if everyone is upset then it’s fair. There are a lot of reasons why some people justify the way they live and a lot of them will never willingly change.

    Yes karma is cause and effect but a lot of times the effect won’t happen without human intervention to force it into reality. I would describe that more as social structure or framework. Tomato potato

    • Maeve
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      34 days ago

      Outside pressures are often the driving forces of evolution, and affect everything engaged in a particular process. Dawkins talked about this, iirc.

      Anyway, observing a thing changes it. There will always be latent effects. Maybe it’s not about individual learning, but collective learning, with a nod to Dawkins.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        44 days ago

        It would be great to think one day society would reward good people more often but we are still crawling to that goal

        • Maeve
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          44 days ago

          Maybe humans will become extinct and the process will continue without us.

          • @[email protected]OP
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            24 days ago

            What’s your prediction for our successors? Aliens? AI bots? Apes? What if we are the aliens that succeded the previous race? That could explain why our sun is so damaging to us.

            • Maeve
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              34 days ago

              I have no idea. We know what the sociopaths are working on singularity. We don’t know the species will survive long enough. Maybe a bug? Maybe an extraterrestrial life form.

              Eta: I recently read an article about nematodes organizing themselves into a superstructure. Idk they can survive rapid climate change or not.

              • @[email protected]OP
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                24 days ago

                That’s what that interstellar object recently seen flying into our solar system is all about. Maybe it won’t be that bad being the pet of some upper middle class giant cockroach alien family.