What common behaviour/social trend do you simply not understand? - Hating niggers excluded <3

Muu said:
Not wearing your sunglasses indoors.

I bought a pair of new sunglasses at the mall once and wanted to wear them walking around and more than a few people looked at me.
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Which country was this?
 
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JamesFargo said:
Can you give examples?
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I only have personal examples. Those probably don't count. Maybe it's not a normie thing, but I've known and worked with people who write off felons, abusers, and bullies as "troubled." Because they're "troubled," they believe it is wrong to stand up to or punish these types of people. These "troubled" people are always needing help no matter how awful they are.

Maybe it's where I live or the impression I get from mainstream and social media, but it's a phenomenon I've experienced enough where I get the impression it's considered normal.
 
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Having a lot of pictures of people that you see all the time. I guess I can understand if it's a kid and the kid is older now but pictures of your spouse when you go home and see them every day is kind of weird. Also I found it really creepy when my mom put pictures of me in the house, like why do you need pictures of the people living in the house currently...I don't get it and it makes me feel like people don't have object permanence.
 
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Hugging as a greeting. I mean hugging when you greet someone that you've seen relatively recently. Though I guess its down in Corona times.

Introducing yourself with pronouns. I've not seen this in my circle but this is hellworld to me:
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I can understand describing your physical appearance for blind people but if gender is a social construct and anyone can call themselves whatever the fuck they want then why would you need to announce it in an introduction?

I think I'd quit the job if I was forced to do this.
 
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The Curmudgeon said:
Normies being overly forgiving and tolerant. Especially towards objectively bad people who should be hated, rejected, and so on. I kind of get why they are, but it still seems irrational.
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I'm very critical of myself and of others. It causes some issues, but here's the thing. I think that perhaps "normies" in some aspect are "bad people" themselves so they consider some transgressions to be just more slips of the day.

Also charisma seems to affect people far more than it does to me.

And its a meme by now that some women want to "save" someone and think they can change them.

Why is it irrational though? Maybe it's a survival tactic?
 
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JamesFargo said:
Christ knows it's been said before, but women have no clue what men find attractive.
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They don't do dumb shit to be attractive to men. They do dumb shit to compete against other women.

The expectation being that if they win the "competition" they'll get men.

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Cars. I want a key starter. No on-star. No special backup camera that also brushes your teeth. No NSA GPS factory installed. No computer controlled tire pressure. I want a car that is a car and only that.
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No one wants these things. On-Star is built-in as a post-sale revenue source. Integrated GPS is used to collect data, which can be sold as another revenue source.

Backup cameras, tire pressure control, electronic seat adjustments, and other crap are there to increase the price of vehicles. Manufacturers make their money off of financing, not off building vehicles. The higher the sales price, the more money they'll make.
 
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TheTrumanShow said:
Why is it irrational though?
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Here's the thing. I accept that no one is perfect. I also believe that people can change. I'm not against that. What pisses me off is people who refuse to change, who refuse to better. I don't expect anyone to completely remove all their flaws or atone for every bad thing they've ever done, but for fuck's sake if you just keep getting worse and don't make any effort to be less of a piece of shit then you're a lost cause. I could soapbox about this forever, but I'll spare everyone. It's kind of personal too. Long story short, I've known too many "troubled" people in my life who grifted off of other people's pity. The impression I get is that regular people would rather humor, pity, and make well-meaning but ultimately useless attempts at reforming these "troubled" types, only to be left with the status quo or ending up worse off.

TheTrumanShow said:
Maybe it's a survival tactic?
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Maybe. I think it's a horrible one, but I can sometimes understand why people do this. I like to think of it as enabling behavior. It's enabling because these "troubled" people know they can milk this pity for all it's worth and few if anyone will question it. They don't need to change because there is no compelling reason to.
 
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The Curmudgeon said:
Here's the thing. I accept that no one is perfect. I also believe that people can change. I'm not against that. What pisses me off is people who refuse to change, who refuse to better. I don't expect anyone to completely remove all their flaws or atone for every bad thing they've ever done, but for fuck's sake if you just keep getting worse and don't make any effort to be less of a piece of shit then you're a lost cause. I could soapbox about this forever, but I'll spare everyone. It's kind of personal too. Long story short, I've known too many "troubled" people in my life who grifted off of other people's pity. The impression I get is that regular people would rather humor, pity, and make well-meaning but ultimately useless attempts at reforming these "troubled" types, only to be left with the status quo or ending up worse off.


Maybe. I think it's a horrible one, but I can sometimes understand why people do this. I like to think of it as enabling behavior. It's enabling because these "troubled" people know they can milk this pity for all it's worth and few if anyone will question it. They don't need to change because there is no compelling reason to.
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I thought you were talking about sociopaths or delinquents whose (lack of) ethos we basically have modelled the status quo on. Like the Bezos of the world and their lesser equivalence everywhere, from the workplace to the media. They don't necessarily grift on peoples pity, in fact some would argue that they "contribute" due to their callous nature and ability to do and push things where others wouldn't.
I'm mostly annoyed at all the sycophants they are able to gather and how obsessed with gratifying that person they can be.


I mean "troubled" folks who are failing at life are an other thing. There's plenty of examples of people taking more time than others to get to their full bloom, others stay fucked forever. I don't really have an opinion on it. Their impact is generally minor anyway. It's a fallacy to be pissed off at the local bum who gets social security when Apple hasn't payed taxes in years for example. Plus the local bum actually has something interesting to say from time to time. It's like their mind zones into some otherworldy frequency the way a clock is right once a day and you get some sprinkles of wisdom to carry on your day with.
 
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