r/WTF • u/BigBlackSabbathFlag • 9d ago

What is going on with these stairs?

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u/banjomin 9d ago

AFAWK kindness is a relatively new thing that most life does not have.

Try not to be too horrified by humans who lack kindness, instead really treasure kindness as being special and hard-earned.

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u/zebramatt 8d ago

Humans are communal animals. The collective success of communal animals relies on what we might call "kindness". Most human societies for 300,000 years have shown evidence of being centrally based around "kindness".

Individualism is a relatively modern concept in human society.

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u/RemCogito 8d ago

Yes, Kindness for the ingroup. But the outgroup is evil, and dangerous and dumb, lets watch them hurt themselves in their confusion, and laugh.

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u/banjomin 5d ago

Being part of a community isn’t kindness, it’s an acknowledgment of the benefit of being part of a group.

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u/zebramatt 5d ago

Members of the community give freely to other members of the community without promise of transactional return. The group being kind to one another is one of the benefits of being part of the group.

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u/banjomin 4d ago

“Community” =/= “idealized community”

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u/zebramatt 4d ago

I'm just drawing from recorded history. Cruelty to one's own isn't an inherently human trait.

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u/banjomin 3d ago

I didn’t say it was.