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I understand. I disagree.
The more I try to get back out in the world, the more I try to date, the more I try to find out what people want in a relationship... The more I find a very common thread.
When i start to try and get to know people the more I find that the vast majority all want what boils down to be the same thing. "I just want to be allowed to be kind." That's it. That's what people want. People want to help each other. People want to be kind to each other. People want to love one another.
But they can't. They can't because there is a type of human being that actively preys on those that want to be kind. They see help as something they can take instead of something that is given. They find those that want to help and convince that person to focus all of their energy on themselves. And when they've taken all the help that person can give they move on to the next one. And they can do that. Because there are more people that just want to be kind than there are that just want to use them.
People that just want to strengthen their own families, their own neighborhoods, their own communities. There are more people that just want to be compassionate than there are people that want to abuse that compassion.
But all through out history people that want to be compassionate have been forced to defend the mantra "That's just human nature."
But if the majority of people want to be compassionate, and have wanted to be compassionate all throughout history, then human nature is... to be kind, to be compassionate, to be loving. But we have to spend so much of our energy defending ourselves from the possible abuse of people that see kindness as weakness, that see compassion as something to be taken advantage of, and see forgiveness as something to be abused, that we can't spend our energy doing what we actually want. Helping those around us.
Human nature is to be kind. People that want to abuse that kindness have convinced us of the opposite and do so in such a way that we actually defend their "innate human nature" to abuse the world around them.
There are more of us than them. Stop letting them gaslight humanity.
TheBurritoConfederacy
They're both human nature, fam. One is just more common than the other.
taggedcattle
We need to stop making excuses for sociopathic behaviour. Well said, OP.