So we’re all just working as normal while the world burns? Sure doesn’t feel right. (TikTok screencap)
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This is the delusion im talking about. It's completely baffling to me how people can take something that has a 99,99% failure rate and assume they're the 0,01% and that's not limited to politics. People constantly do it with every single aspect of life.
You're using a survivorship bias and seeing only the ones that succeeded and ignoring all the ones that failed or didn't even get off the ground to be heard of.
I'm fairly sure not a single one of those were started by a single individual either. These were all started by groups of like minded individuals and I'm not even in a country where there are enough people to get started with any movement.
I'm not sticking my head in the sand. I'm just not delusional to assume there's a realistic possibility to affdct any change even if I'd were to dedicate rest of my life to it. I don't assume I'm special.
We're all just cogs in the machine. Yeah sure we can somewhat change in which part of the machine we are and have a cleaner conscious, but it will not stop the machine.
We can also somewhat break the undesired behaviour of the machine (be unreliable cogs). So yeah, a little freedom we have still
And how much of an effect beyond self satisfaction that has? It will more likely disproportionately effect people close to you/reliant on you than have any effect on the machine.
It's the same argument for why it's OK to sell drugs. Someone is going to do it anyway, me selling crack is not going to change anything meaningful, so I might as well do it.
Good point, but wrong conclusion. Yeah, me selling crack wouldn't change anything on a world wide scale, but it would change things for the worse inside my sphere of influence. The only thing person can have a little and albeit a very limited effect on.
So person shouldn't sell crack out of simple selfish desire to not feel bad(guilt/cleaner conscious), the crackhead will likely just go to another dealer, not in the vain hope of having any actual effect on the wider world
Have enough unreliable cogs in the machine and it won't do what you want. Yes, this is again a plan for long after we die, but doing something good is still worth it
And i never said doing something good isn't worth it. Even in first reply i said best one can do is to just help people close to them, inside their sphere of influence.
Just that it's really really unlikely to have any meaningful effect on world wide scale, even after our deaths.
There's no point to hope to change the world, not that theres no point to help others.
My bad, I have misread you. Feels good to see I am not alone in this, let the time be kind to you