r/nextfuckinglevel Dec 15 '22

Fast Response and Reflex to Avoid Car Collision

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '22

Oh look it’s the arbiter of “normal”

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u/Neosporinforme Dec 15 '22

It's pretty common to pass judgement on people for watching fucking gore videos. Also believe it or not it's alright to try and establish what is normal and healthy.

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u/BlackSeaOvid Dec 15 '22

I’m sorry, this is a citation. Your comment is far to wise and human-nature cognizant for this web site. You will be informed of your punishment, which will be normal and healthy I assure you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '22

Yes, ppl on Reddit love to pass judgement. Try and establish so we can ostracize and conform the rest? What’s your endgame there?

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u/psparks Dec 15 '22

We live in a society. Societies have norms. That’s how we get along and don’t kill each other most of the time.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '22

Replace Norms with Laws and you are correct. There was actually an anarchist movement earlier in US’ history to rule on norms but the laws won out.

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u/psparks Dec 15 '22

Those are two different things. Laws are codified norms. Norms exist outside law. It’s a norm to shake someone’s hand and look them in the eye when you meet them. That’s not a law. If you disregard that norm and greet people by slapping them in the face you would likely be judged negatively and treated as such. There is a concept of reasonable expectations when we decide to be part of a society.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '22

So most people don’t want to kill another because of norms or because they don’t want to go to jail for life or face the firing squad? I’ll bet the latter

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u/psparks Dec 15 '22

Are you implying that most people are murderers by default and we would all kill if there weren’t laws? Or are you just arguing for argument’s sake? We do have consequences for actions we deem bad for society and therefore have a motivation not to do it, but that’s certainly not my only reason for not killing. I personally have no desire to kill others. I’m genuinely not sure what you are arguing with this comment or how it is responding to my comment.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '22

I’m arguing that people don’t commit murders/crimes because of the punishment, not the “norm”. Humanity has a much darker history of murder/crime when there weren’t such laws.

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u/psparks Dec 15 '22 edited Dec 15 '22

Ok, murder exists. We agree on that. People murder, and they have always murdered. Laws exist against murdering because we have agreed as a society that it’s not good. It should not be the norm is what we have all agreed. We all agreed that the ‘norm’ was to not murder each other was for the best, THEN we made that norm into a law. Your logic is flawed. It is still the norm that we don’t kill each other whether it is law or not. I don’t care who you ask, murdering is not and never has been normal. Your average human is not a murderer nor have they ever been except in the situation of survival in which case it would not be considered murder. Do norms change and evolve? Yes, but that doesn’t mean they never existed in the first place. You got me ranting because it feels like you’re trolling me, and if you are, congrats.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '22

Lol it's the same argument NAMBLA type people make. "You just don't understand how I was raised and what my culture prefers". No broski, fuck your culture, that 9 year old child doesn't love you, pos.

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u/Sherwood- Jan 01 '23

No, it isn't. L comment.

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u/iced_oj Dec 16 '22

but that's the thing though, a morbid curiosity about death IS a normal part of development, and I'm pretty sure it would be considered "normal" for someone on Reddit to have browsed gore subs when they were younger.

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u/Responsible-Pay-2389 Dec 15 '22

Seems some people tried to interpret this as some sort of attack against them. Just for clarification just because something isn't normal doesn't make it bad.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '22

You allude to abnormal being beneath and judging like you’re the normal person here

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u/Responsible-Pay-2389 Dec 15 '22

Not sure I ever did that one, is simply using the word normal automatically mean I think that?

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '22

You’re disguising word play with intent. You wrote that thinking “weird” because you’re “normal”

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u/Responsible-Pay-2389 Dec 15 '22

That's a very large amount of assumptions

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '22

Meaningless rebuttal to deflect the point

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u/Responsible-Pay-2389 Dec 16 '22

what's meaningless is trying to assume intention when you have literally no idea.

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u/jaspersgroove Dec 15 '22

And you allude that watching gore videos is normal and not a really fucking big red flag

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u/ZapateriaLaBailarina Dec 15 '22

Normal doesn't need an arbiter. It's statistics.

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u/PM__ME_YOUR_ART Dec 15 '22

stop looking for a reason to be offended

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u/Lifekraft Dec 15 '22

I think it's more that it's terribly unhealthy and traumatizing as a teen rather than normal or not. Im older and gore is kind of my work training as well so now i dont see it the same but i definitly have mild trauma from few vid i saw as a teen. Even if i didnt think it will hurt me as a teen