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qwlauren35

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23. We definitely don't all want the same thing.

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Sun Apr 14, 2024, 01:19 AM

Apr 14

Some people in this world go to grad school so that they can be social workers making $40k per year. Others play football for $10 million a year, so that their "owners" can make billions. Very different goals, outlooks, perspectives. Some people who go to medical school end up joining Doctors without Borders and work miracles around the globe. Others provide plastic surgery for the rich and famous.

One man endured jail as a freedom fighter and ended up running their country, another is a bored, attention-seeking billionaire with a cult following who ran for president because a black man mocked him at a public event.

Jeffrey Dahmer ate people. Mother Teresa tried to save people.

We don't all want the same things. Not by a long shot.

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Why can't the people of the world [View all] cilla4progress Apr 13 OP

because we DON'T all want the same things. elleng Apr 13 #1

This TheProle Apr 13 #3

Bingo! OldBaldy1701E Apr 13 #4

I respectfully disagree with your second and third sentences. love_katz Apr 13 #12

Couldn't have said it better NJCher Apr 14 #18

Yes we desperately need to evolve. OldBaldy1701E Apr 14 #35

I agree! Silver Gaia Apr 14 #30

Then, I salute you. OldBaldy1701E Apr 14 #34

No, humanity has not behaved differently to me and mine. love_katz Apr 14 #36

More and more people, with fewer multigraincracker Apr 13 #14

Wasted resources enid602 Apr 14 #29

We do. cilla4progress Apr 14 #24

it all just makes me sick Skittles Apr 13 #2

Too many want it to be about themselves. LiberalFighter Apr 13 #5

A metaphysical quandary, I think. OAITW r.2.0 Apr 13 #6

No, they are just backwards leaches NJCher Apr 14 #19

I don't bdamomma Apr 13 #7

Not much difference. haele Apr 13 #11

I disagree. cilla4progress Apr 14 #25

Women leaders are not, by and large, matriarchs. brooklynite Apr 14 #33

We have a lot of women in our government who are hawkish as all hell. Autumn Apr 13 #13

We don't get to live in the world we'd want: we only get to help create the world we'd want struggle4progress Apr 13 #8

Many people want peace. The greedy and corrupt want power and money. Irish_Dem Apr 13 #9

Complete cilla4progress Apr 14 #26

RIP Rodney King. Sneederbunk Apr 13 #10

Right there with you orangecrush Apr 13 #15

Too many humans that are busy destroying our only habitat. PufPuf23 Apr 13 #16

Genghis Khan killed millions Kaleva Apr 14 #21

20 years ago it was evident to me that when the climate shit hit the fan cilla4progress Apr 14 #27

Almost feels like you channeled my mind. But I'm sure there are many like-minded this evening. KPN Apr 13 #17

We are humans and not automatons Kaleva Apr 14 #20

The reason this place sucks NJCher Apr 14 #22

We definitely don't all want the same thing. qwlauren35 Apr 14 #23

On the whole, I believe most people just want to live lives cilla4progress Apr 14 #28

Mother Theresa did NOT try to save people NanaCat Apr 14 #31

Because unlike other animals humans don't depend on instinct, it's really always something with them. betsuni Apr 14 #32