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[–] james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.uk 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Absolutely messed up. What is wrong with people?!?

[–] CIWS-30@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's wrong with people is that sociopaths who crave money and power to do awful things like this tend to be very good at getting them, whereas people with compassion and kindness tend to be overly generous and want to see the good in others, so tend to give away too much money and power to those sociopaths, especially if those sociopaths are good at putting up a noble front.

Plus, vast segments of the human population are basically blind sheep that don't think for themselves, and do whatever the media tells them to do. Only way to really solve this in the long term is by convincing people with morals to be more ambitious and to understand how to gain, then use money and power to influence society and the media. The dictator / oligarch types are very good at this (controlling money, power, and the media) whereas nice people who just want to help everyone are very poor at this.

[–] james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a good point I guess. It generally is the same type of person who is somewhat sociopathic who also happens to find themself in a position of power and wealth etc.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are even people who adopt cats from rescuers and torture the cats

[–] james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I didn't need to hear this today :(. Brb, going to give my cats a hug.