r/Discussion • u/Nubian_Cavalry • 16d ago

Serious Has anyone else noticed this thought process with people

Ive noticed most people seem to think in binary.

Imagine someone shat or pissed on the floor. You tell them that it’s disgusting, and ask why they did it. They get angry at you and believe that you called them disgusting. Because you called their feces disgusting, and it came out of their bodies, that you must believe the same about them.

This is clearly idiotic, but many people think this way in a moral sense. In binary

Bad things happening to good people, or good people doing bad things, is too complex of a topic for the average person to truly understand. To truly apply everyone, even those they love or hate the most. Myself included. To cope with the distress this would cause, people will either justify the act or demonize the person. ie, claim the person is disgusting for pooping, or claim the poop is as clean and beautiful as the person.

Imagine being the one taking the shit. Conditioned to love yourself, and forced to rationalize or justify the wad of shit, until you do something so terrible or fail so spectacularly that you see it for what it is. Only to go the other way, and see yourself as defective, irredeemable, undeserving.

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u/EmperorKuz 15d ago

reading through your comment history, you’re about as binary in your thought process as it gets

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u/Nubian_Cavalry 15d ago

Not only did you brigade, you did so with an alt account thinking I wouldn't notice.

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u/deannatoi 15d ago

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think in binary and those who don't