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Anonymous A started this discussion 3 weeks ago#137,103
I know everybody thinks trans people are weird, honestly I kinda respect it though in a way. Like, could you imagine something that’s more embarrassing than that? Unrelated to whether I agree or disagree with it. Some people actually just take social anxiety and shoot it point blank in the back of the head and leave it out to rot in the middle of the road for everyone to see. There’s something respectable about that. It’s like, psychopaths for instance, I’m not a psychopath, but at the same time, I can imagine it would feel better if I could kill someone and not feel bad about it, so much anxiety would just be gone, you know?
Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 3 weeks ago, 21 minutes later[^][v]#1,453,397
You know, maybe I shouldn’t say this. Sometimes I wonder if it’s really even better that we have laws. Like we have all this ideological stuff that you need to let people speak their mind and that we can’t go out and kill people. Would the world actually be a worse place if people didn’t put up with anything and just got rid of all their enemies? I mean, if everybody in the world really did that, how many evil people would be left over? Either not that many or only evil people exclusively would be left over. Not sure which one.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,453,414
> im gonna attempt my best bloody lemonade impression:
A few things in that post don’t hold up if you look at them closely. Being trans and being a psychopath aren’t comparable in any meaningful way, one is a mismatch between gender identity and assigned sex, the other is a personality profile linked to reduced empathy and impulse control. Grouping them together as “things that take courage to display” only works if you already assume both are shameful, which is the part actually in question, not a given.
Anonymous B double-posted this 3 weeks ago, 39 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,453,415
Like The “how many evil people would be left” thing also breaks down under its own logic. If everyone acted on the belief that eliminating their enemies was justified, you wouldn’t get a filtered-down population of only good people — you’d get whoever was best at eliminating others first, which has no correlation with being right. That’s basically how most warlords and dictators have operated, and it’s not remembered as a filtering mechanism for virtue.
Anonymous B triple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,453,416
Tbh the anxiety-reduction angle skips the reason humans built empathy and guilt into their wiring at all:
they’re what make cooperation and trust possible at scale. Removing the capacity to feel bad about hurting people doesn’t fix anxiety, it just removes the thing stopping you from creating a lot more of it for other people
Anonymous B quadruple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 3 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,453,418
Like there two real cases make this pretty concrete. Nigeria’s civil war in the late 1960s started when the southeastern region declared independence as Biafra, largely after mass killings of ethnic Igbo people in the north, both sides framed it as removing a threatening enemy. The result wasn’t a cleaner or more virtuous Nigeria, it was somewhere between one and three million deaths, mostly from the blockade-caused famine, and decades of regional distrust that still shapes Nigerian politics today. Nobody involved came out selected for being “in the right,” they came out selected for being willing to escalate.
Anonymous B quintuple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 43 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,453,419
India’s partition in 1947 works the same way. Communities that had lived side by side for generations turned on each other as “get rid of your enemies” logic spread on both sides of the new border, and it produced somewhere around one to two million deaths and over ten million people displaced in a matter of months. The regions that stabilized fastest afterward weren’t the ones that kept escalating, they were the ones that rebuilt courts, property records, and local governance boring cooperative infrastructure, not purges.
Anonymous B sextuple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 46 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,453,420
Tbh both cases point the same direction: when people act on the belief that removing enemies makes things better, the outcome tracks who’s willing to go furthest, not who’s actually right. Long term stability and growth in both countries has tracked institution building since, not conflict.