If you didn't already realize it, this is one of the main points of this blog. That it doesn't have to be that way. Your judgements on people, your values, your views on the world and on right and wrong... It just didn't have to be how you thought it should be.
People have different values, different opinions, different cultures, and the thing is, none of them were wrong. And none of them were right.
You can see all the arguments and fights with people who know the cost of a mistake that is made, have no doubt of that which is deserved by others and by themselves in the situation, can state with absolute certainty how the world ought to run in the case they are talking about. But the world wasn't like that. And I thought it was worth considering, worth understanding: It doesn't have to be that way.
But the topic calls into question the value of kindness, respect, of life itself. But, that's the next topic. Here I'll just say that most people value life and believe in being nice, and I am of the opinion that that is a good thing.
Finally, like what was said in a part of the last post, I'm not recommending that you change yourself, your beliefs, or the way you live. I can't see the future, and even if I could, my ideas of what is good and bad are subjective, so I can't say the world would be "better" if you accepted that things didn't have to be the way you believed. Maybe it's true that, under your definition of worse, the world would be worse off if people followed what I said, and didn't firmly believe in their ideas as correct (although I would argue that you couldn't know that, unless you can see the future). Although I will say that in my opinion, you should consider the topic, and then make your own decision about how to live.
But then I have to say, well, maybe I shouldn't say that I'm not recommending change. Maybe this personality just won't lead to a better world, using a definition of better that most people would agree on (if there is one). But maybe, even if that were true, it wouldn't matter, because that statement assumes that it is my hope that this would lead to a better world, under that definition of better, but that might not necessarily be true. And yet, I can say that, to some extent, that is true, but, it also assumes that successfully achieving my goals is important to me. And while that is also true, it is also assumed that that is my main goal, which may or may not be true. And all of that is under the assumption that it is true that a personality like this won't lead to a better world. But I can't see the future, so I can't say whether or not it would be true in the first place.
But then I'd have to say that maybe I'm over-considering this topic. But that also takes a definition of "over," and assumes that there is some correct amount that this topic should be considered. But I don't really agree with that.
But...
You can see why it would be ridiculous for me to say that I also considered the alternatives, and why I might be wrong, and why I'm not trying to get you to believe that I'm right, for everything I say. And while it is probably true for most posts in the past, and will probably be true for most posts in the future (probably, but it might not be, because I could just be deceiving myself into believing that I've considered the alternatives and that this is what I want, and also there are so many things that I just might not have been aware enough to realize were also possible...), I don't plan on having something like this in every post. But, yeah, even if it's not explicitly written, it's probably true.
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