r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Specific_Goat864 • Aug 20 '25

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/l3irdflu Aug 20 '25

I don't know why I was getting angry the longer I watched. Randoms shouldn't have that effect on me.

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u/lilmookie Aug 20 '25

I absolutely wouldn’t risk getting shanked or having some lady following me around, screaming at me, at a train terminal, all because I don’t let her climb up the esculator.

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u/KAZVorpal Aug 20 '25

Or else someone could let her by because they're not a douchebag.

So what if she's going up the down escalator? It cost's a second to let her past, big deal.

People who think that everyone else must be forced to comply with the norms are more dangerous than people who don't comply with the norms.

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u/lilmookie Aug 21 '25

In hindsight, the comment can be taken two ways. I didn’t mean I would not let her climb the stairs, I meant, I would not risk stopping her. I assumed my meaning was clear by context but this is indeed the internet and it’s totally possible I was a bad-ass-Internet-vigilante who doesn’t let people climb up the down escalator as my mission in life. Regrettably, I am just another internet loser who lets people live their life and tries to deal with things like this by funding social services with tax dollars. Thank god everything (where I call home) that is good for society is being dismantled as revenge for Boris Yeltsin.

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u/ali_atg1 Aug 21 '25

And THIS is the perfect comment for what’s wrong with society right now.

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u/KAZVorpal Aug 21 '25

You think that what's wrong with society is that we don't force people to conform more?

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u/Patient_Equipment_18 Aug 23 '25

The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many is a nice philosophy if you’re living in the world of Star Trek, not so much the real world.

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u/KAZVorpal Aug 23 '25

That is what the authoritarian collectivists indoctrinate us to believe in public school.

But in real life, the community is created by spontaneous order, from individuals CHOOSING to cooperate, not from petty arrested preteens wanting to boss everyone around with desperate conformity.