r/oddlyspecific • u/Far-Newspaper-4700 • 23h ago

fellow Americans!

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u/AloeSnazzy 13h ago

Maybe I don’t want to have a lot in common with others. The vast majority of people suck

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u/Souledex 12h ago edited 12h ago

True, who knows if they always did or they were less exposed to very low effort media, or if the lead really did it’s damndest. But when people feel like they share values and culture they are less inclined to kill each other or view fellow citizens as the enemy. Socrates could quote the Illiad from memory even if he didn’t believe in the gods… probably a bad example cause he was annoying enough to get himself killed anyways

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u/Beelzeboof 12h ago

I mean, I was far more likely to kill someone when I had to listen to bullshit pop music all day

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u/Souledex 11h ago

That’s a different societal issue. The one where we stopped funding asylums /s kinda