Hang around more, and you’ll see lots. And, yes, they are oblivious to their own hatred.
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Thanks. I have been around a fair bit, for what it’s worth (and I don’t mean this patronisingly). I have seen so much nastiness and bullying and viciousness.
I just find hatred so utterly sad really.
It’s a dead-end street that takes none of us (and by this I mean, the collective us, and I mean to include both perpetrators and victims) nowhere.
I’ve always wondered who the main was. 
Given enough text, it is possible to see which characters are run by the one person.
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In Hobbesian philosophy this is the natural state of human nature, much of what we see around us appears to reflect this.
The setting of Eve being a dystopia merely makes it more apparent.
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Calvinism, by contrast, suggests setting fire to everyone, and only those who need to be burned will scream
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I thought Calvinism was theology, not philosophy; and tbh that sounds very Catholic of them. 
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Whilst I respect your opinion Jonah_Gravenstein I passionately disagree.
Most people are, on a very fundamental level, good people.
Human nature is an entirely human societal construct (our instincts, generally speaking, are long gone) and this means that if the world (real or imaginary) is a dystopia, or for that matter a utopia, it is so because we choose to make it that way.
We can choose a better path. And I think we should.
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I’d be OK with hell, it’d be full of interesting people and probably have blackjack and hookers too.
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I’m not so sure New Eden is such a dystopia after all.
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You’re not far wrong, it’s certainly more gentrified than it was when I started.
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Oh, I was merely comparing it with what I see in the so-called real world.
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I don’t have a problem with that, while I find your opinion somewhat optimistic I believe that everybody has different experiences and that those experiences colour our opinions.
Most people are, on a very fundamental level, good people.
I think most people try to be good people, it’s what society expects of them; however different societies place different expectations on their members which can and often does lead to war. Furthermore jealousy tends to get in the way for most of us, both on a personal and a collective level, at some stage.
Human nature is an entirely human societal construct (our instincts, generally speaking, are long gone) and this means that if the world (real or imaginary) is a dystopia, or for that matter a utopia, it is so because we choose to make it that way.
Personally I believe that you have that somewhat backwards, societal constructs are the result of human nature, or more precisely a way to try and tame human nature. Our instincts are still very much in place and drive a lot of what we do both as individuals and as nations.
We can choose a better path. And I think we should.
I can get behind that, whether we can or not remains to be seen.
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What were you pointing out when you posted this?
Ah, the nature or nurture debate. I can see you’re a believer in nature while I’m definitely a believer in nurture. Ultimately I deeply believe, through education and communication, things can get better.
We can choose a better path. And I think we should.
I can get behind that, whether we can or not remains to be seen.
Agreed that it’s not a given, but I definitely believe in trying blinking hard to get there.
Indeed, and the problem with that debate is that the reality is a bit of both; because our societal constructs have allowed community specialisation while our baser instincts are channelled into sport and warfare.
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Calvinism?
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That’s both Calvinism and Hobbesian at the same time
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I had to look this one up, TIL that there’s a proper word for a certain coloured shower.
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