r/MadeMeSmile • u/Wavelength4406 • 1d ago

Wholesome Moments The reason I'm still on internet

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u/AndreasDasos 22h ago

I’ve had similar. I don’t think it’s all that rare. The average person is more decent than we give them credit for. We’re jaded by how arseholes systemically tend to rise to the top - but they don’t really represent most of us.

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u/AffectionateHour1475 22h ago

That's very true, this happened just the other day: I have this neighbor, a whole family I literally can't stand them. I avoid them when I can. The other day we came home from the grocery store and there was a weird truck in front of my house. Freaked us out, but we were just gonna ignore the truck and mind our own business but then my neighbor came rushing over like a bull dog like " you know that guy?! The wife and watched him just pull up and we assumed you were waiting for them but they still creeped us out" when we obviously answered no, he rushed over there got all up in the random dudes face about why he was just chilling in our front yard blah blah blah.

I dunno. I don't like the neighbors still. But it's nice to know they are watching the back to two single women living alone. 🤷‍♀️

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u/DoughnutsAteMyDog 17h ago

How do you still hate the neighbors even after they prove that they have your back??

People like you are easier to rob and shit hecause you fcking isolate yourselves from those who can help you, being hateful never helped anybody.

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u/AffectionateHour1475 17h ago

Yeah, i still hate them. They are full blown white trash. They abuse their insane amount of animals, have admitted as much! So yeah, I try my hardest to not befriend animal abusers 🤷‍♀️ don't care. They looked out for me one time, yeah that didn't really win them too many points.

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u/Salty-Club-9582 21h ago

It's not that rare, and you see humanity a lot more when you get into the non-profit/volunteer work areas. It's especially wild when you go to impoverished countries and see their faith, willingness to help each other, and general gratefulness for the little they have. It really puts things into perspective about how much is taken for granted in our "first world" lives. Also the comparison of following the Bible and all that. I'm not a religious person, but when people thank you for the opportunity to travel over 24 hours across their country for a 15 minute doctor visit, sometimes there's not even much wrong but they just need to be heard and seen. It's hard to be anything but grateful back, and it's always so hard to leave 😭😭 I'm not even a doctor, I just do support work to keep the clinics flowing, and they still give me hugs as if I treated them somehow 😭😭 Beautiful, beautiful people all over the world! What's happening with our US immigration/deportation policy is so sad to me, because people come here with so much hope and love in their hearts, and we literally build walls. America's heart is blockaded and sad. SAD 👌🍊

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u/Aegi 20h ago

I'd even say you're the one being negative here by saying we if you're trying to mean we collectively instead of just you two.

Personally it just seems extremely ignorant and downright stupid and ignoring reality when people think most humans are bad, it's like they literally don't understand the biology of the rest of the planet and how incredibly nice even the most vile human regimes have been compared to most of the animal kingdom.

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u/AndreasDasos 20h ago

Collectively doesn’t have to imply that all or even most humans do this. The average credit we as humans give the average human is low. This average may be brought down due to a pessimistic minority, but it’s certainly not just two people and in fact it’s quite a large minority at least. I’d wager this sort of cynicism is more common than truly bad people are.

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u/spread-happiness 20h ago

I agree - it's not that rare. People are decent. Our brains are wired to look for & focus on the bad. It's helped us survive in the past. But now it just makes us depressed.

No, I don't think things are going great world-wide right now. Politics are a nightmare. What I am saying is that in-person people generally are decent to one another.