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For avoidance of doubt my point is in no way a criticism of mankind:
As far as I can tell, there are no more of the first kind than the second, though it's my impression that the third kind, in the middle, are at times in average more pro-social or more anti-social depending on the predominant culture of a place and time.
In the current Greed Is Good environment dominant in the West I would say that the bulk of people who aren't internally driven towards being a good person or being a selfish asshole tend toward "What's in it for me" anti-social behavior if only because that attracts more rewards and less social pushback, though as I said and in my experience of living in a couple of countries, local culture also has a big say in that.
Hey thanks for the clearing that up. I think I understood your point very well. I agree. I was just being cheeky about the whole humanity sucks thing. Although there's a truth to this, my life philosophy is buddhist and there's a lot of tolerance and understanding and compassion and all these things that I take into consideration.
Plus, there is nothing WE can do to directly change the way others behave. Ethically, at least, 'cause pointing a weapon at someone doesnt count for my point. We can do so little realistically, big powerful forces can participate in this without waving a physical weapon but this is another topic altogether.
Local culture is definitely a very powerful pulling force as well. I've lived in different countries and I can feel the difference even existing in the same space.
Anyway point in case is that some % ppl are always going to be racist or something else, its just kind of alarming the righteousness of how i've personally seen some people be racist and have radical "me vs. you" beliefs today in 2026 vs I can't pinpoint a specific year but maybe when i was starting in the workforce a little over 10yrs ago. Idk that's my experience at least with that. Maybe the media is making me think it's worse than it is but some friends ive seen convert, coworkers saying the wildest shit that ive never thought of them, the whole thing in the US, trump, kirk, all the buzzwords haha.
Like I said i'm just starting to care about this stuff a bit late in life i've always thought it wasn't my problem until some loved ones + myself have been targeted by the racism/sexism/homophobia and transphobia recently and that flipped a switch.