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Anyone have any advice on hating people less? (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anyone have any advice on just kind of hating people in general less? I look at people, I know they’re huge on religious doctrines and societal models I have no place in, and I just can’t see any good in them worth considering. I try to go outside and connect with people, but everyone looks like a 4channer, or someone two slights away from becoming a 4channer. I can’t restrain the fear or loathing. It’s like the past twenty years have reduced my very capacity for compassion and my capacity to respect anyone period to molten slag.

Heteronormative society and all who uphold it fucking blow, but I’m expected to keep it in my pants re: how and when I take it out on them.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Not sure any advice on a website is going to do you much good. Clearly you're struggling with something but the way you've described your perspective it seems like you regard yourself as better than others.

What drove you to the left other than compassion for your fellow human? Surely you know some people who don't even know what 4chan is or at least didn't know it was still around. If you hate everyone what's the point of fighting to make their lives better?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

What drove you to the left other than compassion for your fellow human?

The Silver Rule ("do not do unto others what you do not want done unto you") can get you most of the way there without compassion taking the wheel. In the wrong circumstances it can backfire, of course.

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