Ask Hambil anything and get a truly honest answer

[Homo Erectus]

why are people so mean?

 

[Hambil]

They aren't. But meanness is still a viable evolutionary trait. So the small percentage of people who are mean, or who act in mean ways, can achieve great success in relative terms (though usually forgotten by history except in extreme cases).

If you really stop and think about it, day to day, person to person, from the guy/gal that lets you cut into line in your car, to the person who just says hello or nods at you - you encounter far more kind people than mean people in your life.

The better question is; Why don't you remember the people who aren't mean?

The answer to that, is complex and simple all at once: You, like most people, have learned due to terrible outdated methods of child raring and/or religion - to hate yourself. So when someone is mean you think "they're probably right." But when someone is nice you think "they didn't really mean it." and you forget about it.

 

[Blindgroping]

Because we remember pain more than joy.

 

[Hambil]

Because we remember pain more than joy.

It's my thread, start your own. My answer was way better because it used more words, and was mine.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Why do people think Ask Me Anything threads are interesting?

 

[Hambil]

Why do people think Ask Me Anything threads are interesting?

Alcohol?

 

[Henoch]

Why is Sarek allowed to victimize me (edit me at will) at TK? Also, why does MENTY never address this issue in any of my PM's? Are they gay lovers? Am I the "SAD JOKE" of the TK board?? Also, is MENTY dead now? Cause he acts dead IMO.

 

[Loktar]

Am I the "SAD JOKE" of the TK board??

You're the drama "queen" of the board.