Tried making a long thread. Didn't make perfect sense, will try a small thread - Humans and Tragedy

Life is what you make it an almost billionair once told me.

"We allow food to become a blend of shit that gives us mild satisfaction at the risk of our health and at the loss of real nutrition."

Filet O Fish or chicken Mcnuggets?

"We allow drugs to enter our lives to replace health and happiness with (mostly) short term soloutions."

What drugs do you allow in your life?

One thing I have always wondered is if the drugs I did when I was younger will fuck me up when I am older.

Even with antidepressants....few have been around long enough to know what really happens long term. Most of the oldest ones aren't even hardly used anymore.

Not just junk food, even the some of the "healthy" stuff is full of shit.

Too much sugar, too much bad fats, too much MSG, Aspartame, High fructose corn syrup, Etc. Lots of things that essentially are not natural and shouldn't be going in our bodies.

Lots of foods that contain a ton of calories and offer nothing in return to your body. Like cola etc.

Me.

1. Currently trying to quit smoking (drug addiction to nicotine).
2. I enjoy a beer, another drug.
3. I take no prescriptions what so ever, the occassional tablet for a headache (see 2 )

They are the obvious one's, what about the things mentioned above in our food? They are pretty much drugs aswell. Caffeine, Un-natural refined Sugar(s) MSG, etc.

Well,... the relatives of Vlad the Impaler, Ivan the Terrible and Ghenkis Kahn will be so relieved.

True! Great point actually.

I eat a lot of chemically-processed foods.

My job is extremely stressful.

I haven't shot up a kindergarten class.

This isn't to say that chemicals and stress aren't bad. But I wouldn't point to them as being 'the root of all evil and problems.'

I would assume you are referring to the school shooting. But you used the word "evil" which to me, means war, genocide etc. Not that I think those things are always bad from a practical point of view. For example, from a standpoint of human behavior, I don't think it's unreasonable for Palestinians to try to destroy Israel and I don't think its unreasonable for Israel to try to destroy Palestinian controlled areas. In that process, schools tend to get bombed, buses blown up etc. Not that its "OK", i just mean it is to be expected. A funeral in Pakistan was bombed by US drones to take out 2 people, killing another 15. Is that "evil" - I suppose. Depends on which side of the act you are on.

My point was that you are ignoring human nature. Its mans nature to always want more, to strike out for more, to take more and to gain more status, more power and so on. It's an evolutionary trait and natural behavior. The vast majority of "evil" are people will less, trying to get more. Greater evils like Stalin or Hitler or broken people doing the same thing for the same reasons, just to an unreasonable degree. As people, we have a strong tendency to misunderstand why people commit acts of violence on a large scale. Al Queda for example is not on a holy quest. Religion is just a convenient rallying cry to find people to go out and die so others can gain power and status. The organization are simply nothing more than a bunch of angry people, from a region that breeds angry people and who have nothing (namely status and power), who find increased status and power in their actions. This is why leadership are never the ones strapping on the suicide vests in spite of all their professed beliefs and this is why leadership is always far from the fight.

When it comes to social hierarchy, those on the bottom want to be on the top. Eventually leadership will form and organize people to try to make that move.

On a small scale such as the act of 1 or 2 individuals, I don't think its fair to group with the Stalins or Pol Pots of the world. Different acts, on different scales, different intent and with different motivations.

"war is the natural state of man..."

This book is not only a great read for anyone interested in human behavior and sociology, but offers a lot of great insight into the motivations behind "evil"

Thanks I will have to check that out .

Thank you for writing something smart on the Internet. It needed it. Thank you.