I'd rather be slightly disappointed in people than willfully ignorant

You are ignorant already

The west won't end

Besides, I can't unknow what I've experienced already

What?

I'm not talking about that

White people won't stop existing

I'm just talking about basic human competence

The first step to understanding, is acknowledging that you know nothing.

It's far below what I'd like it to be, which I thought was not an unreasonable level

Keep going

I've lowered my expectations pretty far

Any lower and I'm giving open applause to junkies who don't miss their veins more than once

You shouldn't have expectations tbh

Let people do what they want to do from their lives, as long as within the law

Is it wrong to want people to better themselves?

And thusly, to better others?

It's not your problem

^

That's the truth

It's not your problem

Care about people that care about you

That you hold dear

People said that about my distant relative who descended into drug addiction, but it rapidly became my problem when I have to eject them from family gatherings because they keep stealing shit

their existence is no longer your problem

I care about people in a general sense, I want them to do well

eject them

But care about yourself first. Don't put yourself first, but sort yourself out first. <:cleanyourroom:429612328192049152>

I'm a social darwinist, somewhat

Same

But I still want the result of that darwinism to be people achieving a higher level of whatever

Communal goals only work from the individual level. do yourself first.

Stop caring about people

^

Can't help it, it's in my nature

Literally, are they your family? Are they your friends? Do they care about you? No? Then it's not your business

Not saying for you to become a cold bastard, or an unpolite person, if you can and want to help someone, do it

but don't become a commie

Yeah, that's the one I want to avoid

Instead of caring about people who don't care about you, start caring more about people who cares about you, make stronger bonds with them