Thread: How negative should our thoughts be?

He just has a horribly negative view of the world. I have pretty much the opposite view he does. People are smart, we are definitely not like any other animal. Most people are perfectly capable of thinking clearly and logically. People want to think clearly, and they are happy when others help explain things to them. It isn't that they hate being told their wrong, they just don't want to be made a fool out of in the process. If you are respectful about it, people will freely admit they are wrong. Some times people get confused but if you go over things step by step and help them understand, they will understand.

Originally Posted by Alric

He just has a horribly negative view of the world. I have pretty much the opposite view he does. People are smart, we are definitely not like any other animal. Most people are perfectly capable of thinking clearly and logically. People want to think clearly, and they are happy when others help explain things to them. It isn't that they hate being told their wrong, they just don't want to be made a fool out of in the process. If you are respectful about it, people will freely admit they are wrong. Some times people get confused but if you go over things step by step and help them understand, they will understand.

I've never seen you say anything intelligent. Most people think teleologically and you do too most of the time. Most people make the "all X is Y so all Y is X" all the time. No matter how many times you point it out. Some humans are intelligent. Most are just fat asses with superb social skills that don't give a fuck about you if you don't have social skills. They then get to pretend that they're intelligent because they have a cell phone that somebody else figured out how to make.