this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025
1 points (100.0% liked)
Memes
46399 readers
131 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Humans by default want to love one another unconditionally. It is how kids are, it is how our pets are. It is our biases and prejudices and labels and insecurities and traumas that have made our love for one another conditional. The whole world needed a big hug after the pandemic. We didn't get one. We saw powerful propaganda being an effectual tool in sowing discord, and it worked by appealing to our individualism, incorrectly overriding collectivism. With the visible rise of individualism worldwide, we're all shriveling in our lonely corners, unloved. Everyone is, not just those choosing the individualism. The world needs loving. Here's a hug for everyone who reads this comment. I love you unconditionally.
Hellll no. Have you seen how cruel kids are to each other in school? If you show any amount of weakness or insecurity or difference from the norm, everyone will gang up on you and make your life hell. There are literally cases of gay or neurodivergent children being driven to suicide by bullying. Kids derive pleasure from making their peers feel inferior to them, much more so than adults. Nice kids are not a given, their parents have to carefully mould those attributes into them. Kids left to their own devices with insufficient parental discipline are horrible.