• poopkins@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I feel like I’m fighting a one-person crusade every time I respond politely to some jerk online. Last night I couldn’t sleep because some rando on the internet said mean things. Why are humans like this? Why can’t we just be nice? Sometimes I feel like we deserve to go extinct.

    • thedruid@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Because everyone wants to be popular. Most people don’t have the tools to be popular through kindness so they simply act like the other orcs instead.