Very little pisses me off as much as people refusing to acknowledge the nuanced complexity of the world, and using it to prop up a pessimistic view of others.
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Primary offender (but not the only one): spurious claims about supposed 'human nature' that really are just someone's one-dimensional personal belief that they're projecting on everyone else.
@joepie91 Hierarchy and competition are just the natural way for people to be you know, it's in our DNA. We're just inherently violent, and we probe authority. See there were the good apes on one bank of the river, and there were these sadist apes on the other side of the river, and we descend from them bad apes, and we conquered all other species, and there has to be a government, it's just human nature