28 Jun 19:27
--This is probably too big a question for a chatbox, Amit, but do you believe in the idea of good and evil?
Shout Box archive
28 Jun 19:25
--I'm not sure if I made myself clear either, chatboxes are far too limited a medium lol
28 Jun 19:23
--Empathy is our best tool here, putting ourselves in the other guy's shoes and understanding what he feels.
28 Jun 19:23
--It's ok John and Mech....I'll disengage now lol. I don't think I'm going to be able to be clear enough in a shoutbox discussion
28 Jun 19:22
--I think that actually thinking about what violence is and what it means is the best way to cure us of it. I think a lot of people be inured to it by unrealistic depictions of it.
28 Jun 19:22
--Yeah, we are probably the only species that has to contemplate its own mortality!
28 Jun 19:21
--Wasn't talking abot0ut that link Muzz...yeah we're all gonna die, and we don't like the idea....not arguing with that haha
28 Jun 19:21
--@Amit: Hey man, it is. And I'm happy for you that you aren't in this position. Some of us literally need to break a beer bottle just to cross the street of crazy rowdy people.
28 Jun 19:21
--I'm just saying that people behave in scary ways, and you seem to be implying that we are participating in making it that way.
28 Jun 19:20
--Terror management theory isn't trying to tell you that you should be scared lmao
28 Jun 19:20
--And where whole groups of people hate other groups of people, just for being different.
28 Jun 19:19
--We all do. We all live in a world where some people are willing to kill to get there way.
28 Jun 19:19
--yeah! I think it's a very useful way to understand the world. it explains why people get more racist around terror attacks.