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[Justsomecicada]

So this is not a case of "Reddit being Reddit".

Eh, the post still has 45k updoots, I’d say it’s very much still Reddit being Reddit

 

[Free the Pedos]

IF WE WERE MEN IN WOMEN'S CLOTHES PSYCHOLOGISTS WOULD TELL US SO.

MOTHERFUCKER THEY USED TO

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

I’m not sure what these Reddit types are trying to protest or support here. They don’t really have a real belief system on anything to do with trying to retain common ground on something important in their lives.

This is just parody:

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If you are on reddit and see pedo jannies and no one kicks them out then you are on a pedo site.

 

[AnOminous]

IF WE WERE MEN IN WOMEN'S CLOTHES PSYCHOLOGISTS WOULD TELL US SO.

Sort of like how psychiatrists would tell molestation victims they had an Electra complex and it was a fantasy to justify their attraction to their rapists?

Yeah psychology has a great track record for accuracy.

 

[JustSomeDong]

Sort of like how psychiatrists would tell molestation victims they had an Electra complex and it was a fantasy to justify their attraction to their rapists?

Yeah psychology has a great track record for accuracy.

Like the rest of medicine, at least it used to be well intentioned. Some therapists used to at least try to fix people. It used to be a big deal when someone was "done" with therapy, because they'd worked through their issues and learned how to handle them.

Nowadays its a lifetime supply of pills and a lifetime subscription to the couch to validate and reinforce terrible decisions. Gotta get dat chedda, and healthy people don't need their services, and people who don't need them won't pay for them. To say nothing of the "inmates running the asylum" status of the APA. I'm writing a post, not a book.

I don't know if that's really progress.

 

[Megaton Punch]

This is from 2022.
Actual link: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/tm4ga8/ignorance_of_history_may_partly_explain_why/

Also, many updooted comments slam the study:
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So this is not a case of "Reddit being Reddit".

WELCOME TO REDDIT, SON

 

[The Delta Farce]

Power jannies once again hiding dangerous news from our sensitive reddit friends.

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Any time one of these stories stays up long enough to have comments Redditors come out with their religious mantra of "we're living in the safest time in human history". Makes me genuinely MATI. Even if it were true, would that make it okay that thousands of people are getting stabbed every year? It used to be slightly worse so we should just accept it?

 

[LecherousGranolaBar]

I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE™
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Why is every Science post I see basically "STUDY SHOWS REPUBLICANS ARE RETARDED MONKEYS AND DEMOCRATS ARE HANDSOME, HAVE HUGE COCKS AND FUCK NONSTOP"?

 

[3deadniggers]

Sort of like how psychiatrists would tell molestation victims they had an Electra complex and it was a fantasy to justify their attraction to their rapists?

Yeah psychology has a great track record for accuracy.

I would like to know more.

To say nothing of the "inmates running the asylum" status of the APA. I'm writing a post, not a book.

Almost everyone going into psychology is doing it to fix themselves or they're women looking for gossip.

 

[Space Police]

Almost everyone going into psychology is doing it to fix themselves or they're women looking for gossip.

Or idiots who want an easy degree. It should say a lot that psychology is right up there with gender studies in terms of useless, easy degrees sought by burnouts and idiots.

 

[dvorak]

Any time one of these stories stays up long enough to have comments Redditors come out with their religious mantra of "we're living in the safest time in human history". Makes me genuinely MATI. Even if it were true, would that make it okay that thousands of people are getting stabbed every year? It used to be slightly worse so we should just accept it?

>I'm sorry you got raped sweaty
>But don't you know we live in the safest time in human history?
>Anyways, can you upvote my post when you're done crying? Thanks.

 

[Justsomecicada]

>I'm sorry you got raped sweaty
>But don't you know we live in the safest time in human history?
>Anyways, can you upvote my post when you're done crying? Thanks.

Imagine if in every era of human history this was the attitude people took, it would have never gotten better,

 

[ZMOT]

Imagine if in every era of human history this was the attitude people took, it would have never gotten better,

those people tended to get stabbed since the only way to communicate that was face to face, maybe later phone.
and if not then sooner or later in a mass grave once society self-corrects.

 

[Friedrich Hayek's Ghost]

Like the rest of medicine, at least it used to be well intentioned.

The devolution of psychology is incredibly depressing to me. When I was in college, I was friends with a handful of people in the psych program. That entire program was, to a one, populated with broken people trying to understand what was wrong with them. Rape victims, vets with PTSD, domestic abuse victims, etc. Most of them, and all of the ones I was friends with, were genuinely good men and women who wanted to spare others the agony they'd gone through. In their desire to alleviate some of the pain in the world, I just know more of those people than I'd like are recommending actively harmful treatments for fetishes disguised as illnesses. The fact that their inherent goodness has put them in that position fills me with hate.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Any time one of these stories stays up long enough to have comments Redditors come out with their religious mantra of "we're living in the safest time in human history". Makes me genuinely MATI. Even if it were true, would that make it okay that thousands of people are getting stabbed every year? It used to be slightly worse so we should just accept it?

It makes me wonder if living in unprecedented safety damages a person's ability to empathise with individuals who have suffered harm. They can get on their high horse about distant and abstract events and issues, but anything immediate and concrete seems to generate an almost visceral level of disgust for the victim.

 

[McMitch]

It makes me wonder if living in unprecedented safety damages a person's ability to empathise with individuals who have suffered harm.

Redditors are religious zealots in that the effort needed to empathize is preemptively overwritten by the narrative they support.

 

[LOWERCASE LETTERS]

This is kind of both based and cursed at the same time.

 

[The Delta Farce]

It makes me wonder if living in unprecedented safety

Honestly I think Redditors and governments are just lying when they say that. I don't believe that Europeans were running around stabbing and gang raping en masse each other in the post war era before they were culturally enriched.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Honestly I think Redditors and governments are just lying when they say that. I don't believe that Europeans were running around stabbing and gang raping en masse each other in the post war era before they were culturally enriched.

Aren't all those stats from the Gates Foundation? It was Gates who gave that speech that went viral and normies just take as gospel. Everything before current year sucked and everything in current year is progress

Its like with poverty, they claimed billions have gotten out of poverty but their cutoff for what constitutes poverty is like 1$ a day. And they don't account for the millions of middle class people whose standard of living decreases and are now much poorer. With violence is like a few civil wars ended so the average is a much safer world and nevermind that previously high trust and safe communities now have a huge spike in violent crime. Its the world of misguided averages and corporate manager logic totally disconnected from empirical experience.

 

[Dwarf Lord]

No crime statistics can ever be trusted. It's an intrinsic fallibility of both government bureacracy and human behavior.

The vast majority of most crime will never be reported. Even if it was, most police chiefs are under pressure to reduce the reports, massage the numbers, reclassify the crime as something less severe, etc.

It's not just a western problem, it happens in developed Asian countries like Japan as well. Japan doesn't actually have a crazy high suicide rate compared to western countries like most people think, what they do have is a police force that has been trained to classify all but the most obvious murders as suicides to keep the crime rate low (and sometimes even the most obvious). It's an open secret that has been going on for decades.

It's not just murder though, their entire police system is set up to avoid taking reports of crime. Almost no one in cities goes to an actual, real police station to report crimes, what they go to is something called a 'koban', which is a sort of mini-station the size of a hot dog stand, koban meaning 'police box'. Here they will take your report of a crime and tell you they'll report it to the higher ups. What they really do is nothing. Asking them to give you any kind of confirmation number that you actually reported a crime will get them angry with you. The average Japanese opinion of their police isn't of fear or distrust, Japs just consider them to be useless. Not worth the time even talking to.