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How old were you when you gave up on People?

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Mill

Lifer
I'd hazard a guess to say I was about 18 or so. I'd say now days I estimate only 10-15% of people out there really care about their fellow man, or actually give a damn about the direction of society. It could be more -- I'll admit that I'm jaded and pessimistic. I've found it is very hard to find people these days that will go out of their way to help someone unless it benefits themselves. People are lackadaisical at work -- people no longer stop to help the injured or stick around as witnesses. It seems as if the feel of NYC and other big cities has become a Suburban and even Rural problem as well. What caused this? Expanding population? The quest to be rich?
 
I got pretty down on people when I was about 15. Meeting good people down at college & especially at the PD has brought that up a bit, though.
 
Well.. I'm so incredibly overly optimistic regarding things like that, I don't think I have yet.

I chose to see the good people and ignore the bad, or whatever.
 
You said it yourself, you care a lot more about your dog than a dying human that you don't know.

I believe people are inherently good, it's just that things get in their way and they forget what they're doing. It takes big traumatic events (sept 11th, death in the family, yadayada) to shock them into seeing what they've become.

Unfortunately most people are really stupid, and can't see but 2 days ahead of them. Most ATOTers are smarter than the average person, who's stupidity boggles me on a daily basis.

I don't consider myself to be a saint. I guess it's just that I have so much contempt for my fellow man. But I'm a petty, spiteful person. I'm extremely materialistic as well. Honestly, if I could trade the lives of say, 5 people, who I don't know, for a Ferrari 360, I'd do it. I wouldn't even have to think about it. Maybe that embodies what's wrong with our society. Or maybe it's just me. The only people that exist to me are the people I know, everyone else is a stranger part of the mass of "people" who do stupid things, and are basically against me, my enemies.
 
Everyone deserves a chance. Once they show that they are only in it for themselves then they get the same treatment in return.
 
As for the age? Maybe 17? I recently uncovered some sort of supressed memory from when I was in jr high. I was friends with this kid who lived in these apartments across town, and I hung out with him every day for a couple weeks, he would always come over to my house, and his mom would come pick him up.

Then one day my mom took him home, and later that day she said she didn't want me to see him anymore. I asked why, and she said, "It's like if you wanted to go to a movie, or a restaurant, or an amusement park one day, and he was with you, you couldn't. He doesn't have any money for things like that. So if you're with him, it will keep you from having a lot of fun. But don't say anything to him, it's not his fault that he doesn't have any money."

For some reason, that line worked on my little 12 year old brain at the time, and it didn't occur to me until much later what she really meant.

That materialism I mentioned above, I think we can see where I got it. :roll:
 
Mill, is it possible that your vision about the "right direction of society" is causing you to feel that people are not acting properly?

I work in a union shop so I've seen people with doctorates in lazy, but that isn't the norm.

Sure, I have seen acts by people that have caused me to be cautious in my dealings with my fellow man, but I can't say that I'm jaded.
 
19..when I was first deployed overseas. Ended up spending the next 6+ years overseas, so my views of people in general just kept getting worse.
 
i still believe people are good....just that some are part...very small amt....most are good....yes like me and U 🙂
 
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