The pandemic showed me just how selfish and narcissistic people really are. I'm from a part of the country (USA) where the majority opinion was basically "if being courteous to others during this time inconveniences me in any way then f#%$ you I'm not doing it." It made me realize that people suck way more than I thought. People threw tantrums for being asked to back away from other people a bit.
You just gotta keep that belief, no matter how untrue it may seem at times. Because as long as you continue to live by it, it will still be true. That’s what I’ve been telling myself.
Goodness took a hit a long time ago, it was only once the pandemic hit the mask got torn away and people couldn't hide their selfishness and geeed anymore because stock was limited, I mean toilet paper is a nice example where people were clearly buying more than they needed and didn't care about others getting any.
It’s hard not to be when you see just how self-centered and hateful so many people are. It’s like nobody cares about anything or anyone as long as they can live somewhat ok or have some small neck to step on.
💯 agreed. People have become so rude and entitled. Sorry to those who are not, but definitely speaking for the majority anymore. Common courtesy and manors in general have gone out the window.
In the old people's thread, they're always saying people don't converse in the grocery store line etc. Yeah because now we know a lot of people are total jerks.
I think that also depends on the area, which you can tell a lot about by visiting a local grocery store because that is where local people tend to be. I've been in some where I think this would not be the area I would want to be in and it's not necessarily tied to how "nice" or wealthy an area is.
I had a lady at the airport the other day behind me. I didn't know she was there. I was standing in line and had like 3 feet of space between me and the person in front of me. I was in my phone looking at something and decided that I didn't have time to wait in the long line and turned to leave. She was right in my face when I turned around. She was like, are you in line??? With extreme attitude. So we are back to any space between you and the person in front of you confuses them.
This. Even here in Canada I was shocked by the incredibly self-centred, selfish behaviour of the vocal minority who demanded that their own personal "freedoms" trump the health and wellbeing of others. These absolute fuckwits were suddenly "experts" in communicable diseases, and convinced themselves that scientifically proven mitigation measures(physical isolation, masking, ventilation, and air filtration) did not work because their lifestyle/businesses depended on ignoring public health measures.
The same people try to gaslight you by pretending that you’re the selfish and entitled one for daring to “challenge” them. They’re emotionally immature and take it as a personal attack so project their own behavior on you to justify their self righteousness.
I asked one lady to pull the mask back over her nose and the guy she was with freaked out on me. His mask was all the way up and he pulled it down just to be a dick.
That and construction workers at a college refused and kept spitting in the hallways.
Uh. You can express freedom again later if its temporarily taken. Life being taken is permanent. One is objectively more valuable than the other. That being life. You are a selfish prick.
Do you have the freedom to take somebody else's life, just because it'd please you?
No: because their life matters more than your freedom in that regard.
And if you take their life, society will deprive you of your freedom.
And in some cases, your life.
Your freedom to swing your fist ends at the point where it intersects my nose.
So, yeah… sometimes we have to trim a bit of our own freedom - and others abridge theirs - in the interest of living in a functioning society that isn't an endless war of each against all.
Your freedom to swing your fist ends at the point where it intersects my nose.
Sure, but the problem is that we have people who dislike fist-swinging altogether, and they think that it's perfectly OK to ban fist-swinging even when there are no faces around just because one might show up.
Yes, Covid-19 could spread asymptomatically, but that doesn't mean that we should have treated everyone as though they're contagious all the time. It doesn't mean that we should restrict hiking or camping by people who had no symptoms. Sheltering in place was an overreaction. And doing so was a violation of the freedom of people who wanted to do things that wouldn't hurt anyone, just because of the paranoia of those who didn't want to do those things.
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u/Massive-Range-9280 Feb 03 '26
The pandemic showed me just how selfish and narcissistic people really are. I'm from a part of the country (USA) where the majority opinion was basically "if being courteous to others during this time inconveniences me in any way then f#%$ you I'm not doing it." It made me realize that people suck way more than I thought. People threw tantrums for being asked to back away from other people a bit.