Pussification in America: Political Correctness is Gay

fanaskin_sl said:

Then why do the richest people commit the worst attrocities? bankers, corporations(the board) and despots have killed millions of people in the last 50 years alone, yet their basic needs where more than adequate met.

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Because they believe they are acting in their best interests. They have been taught that in order to ensure the best possible lifestyle for themselves and their families, they are obligated to take advantage of whatever advantages they are given, and that includes killing others to ensure their positions of power can't be challenged. Don't get me wrong, I would absolutely qualify this as evil behavior, but again it's learned behavior. If these fuckers didn't believe it was their capitalism-given obligation to fuck others over for their benefit, they wouldn't do it.

fanaskin_sl said:

This existed before capitalism was invented, literally pick any age of mankind and any societal system, you'll see human nature.

You want to know why they did it? i've read many of these peoples biographies, they do it because they can get away with it many of them, literally many of them did it because it pleased them. there's plenty of torture and malicious behavior that can't be explained as "furthering capitalist entrenchment" I mean explain bernie madoff then. Why did bernie madoff decide to defraud all those people, he didn't need the money he literally had more money than he and his children and their grandchildren could spend in their lifetimes.

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Actually, this is a good point. One of the major problems with political and business power structures is that they reward psychopaths. I'm positive that if you could give an objective test that could prove so, the grand majority of high-ranking politicians and CEOs would qualify as psychopaths. Again, this is because they were raised to believe that if they didn't carry out a despicable act, somebody else would and they'd end up being the ones getting screwed over.
And when it comes to rich people, there's no such thing as ever having "enough". It's a constant, never-ending to get more, more, more. It's disgusting (I've said many times that the 1% are responsible for damn near every problem on the planet) but it's still learned behavior. Everybody is competing for resources, so those in the position where they can rig the game to their benefit will do so, not because it's human nature but because the system makes it irrational for them to behave otherwise.

Azeth_sl said:

do any of my fellow office dwellers ever miss busting their ass doing some real work every now and then?

my dad rode me so hard for chores and yard work.. it's ingrained in me.

still living in the city with the wife & cats.. looking for that home to put some sweat into.

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Gah this so much. Gardening and yard work use to be my hobby.

Does Tanoomba's testimony that the majority of rich people are psychopaths count as evidence, thus rendering the need for a citation null?