[Posted by E&C on 29 Oct 2011 09:39 am]

You're walking down the road in a five hundred dollar suit when--EGADS!--you see a person drowning in a lake. To save them means ruining your suit. Do you do it? Most people are like, "Hell yeah. I'd totally do it." But if told you that there was someone dying in Ethiopia and that five hundred dollars would save them, would you pay the money? Most people, I'm guessing, wouldn't. And what's the difference? I mean mathematically they're the same, right? It seems like the difference is proximity. We're hardwired to be moral to the please close to us, but people outside the realm of our experience exist only as abstractions.

As far as I can tell, that's the only way to explain the crap-tacular shit storm of troll behavior. These obnoxious as hell individuals may well have lives filled with kindness and love, but they get online and their demons are stronger than their ability to think abstractly, so they spew hate all over the place. Never in a million years would they talk to someone in person the way they write online. It probably wouldn't even occur to them.

And the people who aren't trolls--the decent people who make up the quieter majority. I think they got love in their hearts and intelligence in their heads. Thank god for them.

C

[Posted by DADICUS (Guest) on 05 Nov 2011 03:35 pm]

Now I get it.

[Posted by DADICUS (Guest) on 05 Nov 2011 03:36 pm]

HAHAHAHA!!! Great message!!!! LOL