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u gotta get less misanthropic I'm not kidding

especially now with all the bullshit going on in Kansas, in Texas, in Iran, with Israel and Palestine, this ICE shit, this Epstein shit, it is essential to remember that evil and violence is not the natural state of humanity. this is not what humanity is like. if it was, there would be no reason to be disgusted or fight against it. most people are good and decent, and are victims of this, and by reducing it to a "carte blanche humanity is fucked anyway" you are casting aside the good, decent, loving people with rich inner lives who these cowardly fucks think are disposable

The vast majority of people are cooperative and prosocial by nature. None of this shit -gestures at every complex thing humans have built- would exist if we weren't hardwired with miraculous levels of cooperation mechanisms. The atrocities OP mentioned are BY FAR the exception, not the rule. It's a few ruthless assholes behaving unconscionably and being unfortunately rewarded for it because ruthless assholery is effective at gathering power. But they are NOT normal, and they do NOT represent us. The vast, vast majority of humanity is your family.