@Dr Iron Arc I can see the personal benefit in telling others that selfishness is bad and they should be ashamed of it, since it makes people care about others more, especially if their interests are conflicting with mine. Also it make sense to me to present oneself as altruistic, and caring about high morals/ethics/standards (the higher the merrier) as a way to divert others from one's selfish goals, but it doesn't make sense to present oneself as selfish as a way of decieving others.
My belief is that everyone is selfish while some people occasionally claim they're not, and that people who claim to be altruistic are lacking self-awareness, intentionally decieving others for the perceived benefits, or experience empathetic pain. The way I see empathetic pain is that it may occur when an empath puts oneself into another one's shoes. I do rarely feel empathetic, so there isn't much I can say with enough certainty. I recognize empathy as still selfish because it's the empathetic pain that the person wants to get rid of, not the projected pain/suffering of another being. It is also not clear to me in what situations empathy would occur for a specific person, what kind of suffering has to be percieved, who (objects of suffering) would trigger empathy and who wouldn't, whether or not a specific person is faking empathy... To me empathy feels unreliable and uncertain while selfishness feels certain.
I think LCK said it well: "People don't fuck down. They fuck up and cross." I wouldn't expect (nor do I want) someone pretty to fuck me out of pity.
I felt like apologizing before you because I made the post about myself and not you. Supposedly to make myself look better in your eyes. And I said that to make an impression of a honest and self-aware person.
Ed: I googled what roasting in relation to looks means, and they post mostly faces. I think that what people commonly find unattractive in fat people is what is below the face. I'm somewhat fat and my face looks nice, but my body doesn't seem to me nearly as pretty.
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