A couple months ago, I was having a pretty good discussion with my brother in law about people being inherently good. I told him, he was dead wrong, humans are animals and will more or less disappoint you if they think no one is watching. His best example was right before him, he said, look, we are all sitting together, enjoying all this food, nobody is exhibiting hate towards anyone, there is nothing but love all around us. Yes, I agreed, but you are looking at a subsystem that is part of a bigger entity. We have to love and protect each other, we have chosen to call each other family, therefore, there is something in it for all of us to be healthy together. This does not translate once we head outside those doors. I don't want to hurt the neighbors around here, but I am not going to slave away at work and then come give my money to the neighbors so they can enjoy a good meal.
My real reasoning as to why and how we behave outside our doors with our neighbors and strangers is because we have laws. Take away the laws and consequences and then we are in the equivalency of a third world country. If you want to say we are inherently good, would you let your daughter, at 16-18 years old, theoretically, walk alone in the evening in any third world country in Africa, South America, Middle East, most of the world really? We have pretty good laws here and good police departments most everywhere and there are still places you wouldn't let your daughter walk around at night, remember New Orleans and how it went to shit after the levy broke, post Katrina?
Lately, on a smaller scale but still along the same lines I feel. I have been looking at tons of YouTube videos involving cops and officer shootings. Yeah, it is a little fucked up to watch, but there is learning to be gotten from these videos, if only the people that could best benefit would shut their mouths and learn. Every comments section is filled with police hate. This I don't understand at all. These men and women put themselves on the line every day to insure we live safe quiet lives and the best some assholes have for them is a warm "fuck you Cop!" and "I hope you die!" If you feel this way because of how a family member was treated, your family member did not have to be on the wrong side of the law, it was a choice. Who do you expect to call when you get yourself in trouble, somebody takes your property, or infringes on your rights? The police officers are there to help and protect us, the every day citizen, we should all be inherently good to them. They have signed up for a job where they accept that they could die any day for the safety of the group he/she protects.
You cannot be inherently good if you get up in the morning, get online, create a false account, talk shit about everything you see, and then take a break to go walk your dog. Nope, I will call you a-hole #1. I have only made about three comments on YouTube and they are to a guy in Miami who takes his family boating and I mention a thank you for images of his surroundings and that some day I'd like to boat where is at, some sandbar. People walk around in shallow water, some boats sell food out there, everyone is in bikinis. It looks awesome, and still even to this guy, some guys talk shit where he is thinking of stopping his videos. A lot of people have black little hearts and they won't be happy until everyone sits in the dark pondering death like they do. Fuck that! I wish humans were better, but here we are.
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