TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhat's the biggest plot hole in real life?message-squaremessage-square129fedilinkarrow-up1144arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1134arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the biggest plot hole in real life?TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square129fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMontagge@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down4·1 year agoIf most people are good why doesn’t the world get better without violence?
minus-squarelol3droflxp@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 year agoThere’s a saying in German that my grandmother sometimes used, it roughly translates to “The person is good but the people are bad” (Der Mensch ist gut, aber die Leut sind schlecht).
minus-squareEveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-21 year agoI like that. Another quote that comes to mind is this, from the movie Men in Black (1997): A person is smart; people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. – Tommy Lee Jones, as Agent K
minus-squaredudinax@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year ago“Germans: so estimable in the individual, so execrable in the aggregate”. – paraphrase of Goethe
minus-squarekaj@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down7·1 year agoMost people regularly eat dead animals, so violence is still everywhere. In fact, there’s more now than ever before. :(
minus-squareDigital Mark@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoWould you prefer they eat live animals?
If most people are good why doesn’t the world get better without violence?
There’s a saying in German that my grandmother sometimes used, it roughly translates to “The person is good but the people are bad” (Der Mensch ist gut, aber die Leut sind schlecht).
I like that.
Another quote that comes to mind is this, from the movie Men in Black (1997):
“Germans: so estimable in the individual, so execrable in the aggregate”. – paraphrase of Goethe
Most people regularly eat dead animals, so violence is still everywhere. In fact, there’s more now than ever before. :(
Would you prefer they eat live animals?
Edgy!