"I don't want to live on this planet anymore" moments

[Thaluikhain]

Not so much when people do something obviously wrong, but when people, especially people in authority, turn around and say it's not a big deal, or it's the victim's fault.

Well today...THIS [http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/racist-thugs-beat-up-metrolink-1750381] made me think I don't want to live on this planet any more.

It really makes me sad that something like that can happen. If you didn't read the link then in a nutshell, A man was racially abused and then attacked on the Metro tram in Manchester. Bad yes, but what's even worse is that the tram was full of people at the time and they all saw what was happening but no one did a thing to stop it.

I can understand not wanting to get involved, for fear that instead of 6 or 7 people beating one person up there's 6 or 7 beating up two people, and one of them is you. But when people are jumping up and down to get a better look...not so much.

 

[Smeatza]

I can understand not wanting to get involved, for fear that instead of 6 or 7 people beating one person up there's 6 or 7 beating up two people, and one of them is you. But when people are jumping up and down to get a better look...not so much.

It's a social phenomenon, I forget it's name.
Apparently the more people are there to witness an act of violence, the less likely someone is to intervene.
They say that there is a dissolution of responsibility within the watching crowd, a subconcious "well if they aren't helping why should I?"

OT: Every time I hear another posturing, chest thumping, bullshit rap song.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I can understand not wanting to get involved, for fear that instead of 6 or 7 people beating one person up there's 6 or 7 beating up two people, and one of them is you. But when people are jumping up and down to get a better look...not so much.

It's a social phenomenon, I forget it's name.
Apparently the more people are there to witness an act of violence, the less likely someone is to intervene.
They say that there is a dissolution of responsibility within the watching crowd, a subconcious "well if they aren't helping why should I?"

The bystander effect, I think. This doesn't just apply to violence, though.

A personal experience, I was at Centrelink once when a little girl fell over, hitting her head on a table or something on the way down. Someone called out "Someone help!" and everyone stood up, took two steps towards them, and stopped, waiting for someone else to do something (myself included).

Now, as it happened, at least two people did go to help, one who knew what to do, and the other who really didn't and had to be repeated told not to do things that'd make things worse. I think that's a legitimate fear there, nobody wants to take responsibility and get things wrong.

...

In a fight, though, you are risking yourself on behalf of a total strange on top of that, that's somethign else entirely.

 

[King Aragorn]

When somebody tells me that the Guy Fawkes mask is based from V for Vendetta, and that V has nothing to do with Guy Fawkes.
Might as well use the gun...

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

When somebody tells me that the Guy Fawkes mask is based from V for Vendetta, and that V has nothing to do with Guy Fawkes.
Might as well use the gun...

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Someone actually said that to you? Maybe they hadn't seen the movie, but still...

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

It's not a literal "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" it's more a "I gotta share +50 years with these idiots on the same planet, pls hepl!"

And the last time i had this, when i first saw Jersey Shore. <.< For a second i questioned, how we ever achieved things like flying to the moon.

 

[Thaluikhain]

When somebody tells me that the Guy Fawkes mask is based from V for Vendetta, and that V has nothing to do with Guy Fawkes.
Might as well use the gun...

...

Someone actually said that to you? Maybe they hadn't seen the movie, but still...

Nowdays it's almost literally true, though. Mass produced merchandise from a big budget movie that just happened to be about not liking the establishment or something.

Actually, yeah, put that on the list, when people co-opt things like that.

 

[funkyjiveturkey]

while coming off the bus at the mall coming from the college everyday i'm usually greeted with the sight of a bunch of young ghetto chavs standing across the way normally shouting at the top of their lungs in casual conversation and making overt, obnoxious gestures at the passersby. now this isn't shocking or surprising to me in the least.

then suddenly a wind picks up, their $70 hats with stickers on them blow into the streets. mfw a bunch of swaggits are jumping in front of moving busses and cars screaming that they lost their stupid hats. when i get my license, i'm not stopping for them.

 

[Radoh]

Well there was one time when that commercial space flight guys wanted to build a colony on Mars, but then I found out what that entails exactly and I thought that was just too gross, so I'm fine with living here, since all my favorite everything is here.

 

[FFP2]

This:


I'm not too fond of misinformed people in general. I'd rather not explain why I don't like this specific example.

OT: Every time I hear another posturing, chest thumping, bullshit rap song.

Maybe you shouldn't listen to the shitty side of rap then

 

[repeating integers]

Yeah, my moment was discovering Army Ants and what they're like. Utterly horrifying creatures.

 

[Xukog]

Yes,actually just had a moment,(before mentally smacking myself and moving on) after seeing a comment on a joke video about in-universe racism in WoW, which a quick search out of bile fascination lead to a video,which led to a forum filled with racist people talking about some kind government or something have a white-genocide agenda. I then read several threads,growing more confused and disgusted as I continued,before I just left the site,and ignored the crazies.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Whenever someone says "I don't want to live on this planet anymore".

I used to take that idiotic, pretentious misanthropist attitude to stuff. Then I turned 14.

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

When CNN recently sympathized with two guys who raped a girl, recorded doing so and bragged online about it and had them painted as the victims because they are sports stars or some shit.


Yeah, a fucking stupid statue and TV show doesn't mean jack shit to me. There are REAL problems out there to make you lose hope, none of these "1st world problems" bullshit.

 

[maninahat]

Nothing?

I got over my melancholic misanthrope stage about 10 years ago, so now I just facepalm if some such nonsense rears it's head.

Pretty much this. Less "I don't want to live on this planet" and more "no, I'll stay here, but you can get the fuck off of my planet."

 

[Silvianoshei]

Well today...THIS [http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/racist-thugs-beat-up-metrolink-1750381] made me think I don't want to live on this planet any more.

It really makes me sad that something like that can happen. If you didn't read the link then in a nutshell, A man was racially abused and then attacked on the Metro tram in Manchester. Bad yes, but what's even worse is that the tram was full of people at the time and they all saw what was happening but no one did a thing to stop it.

If it makes you feel any better, If you're attacked on the CTA in Chicago during rush hour, the headlines will read, "CTA rush-hour crowd puts 8 thugs in hospital." If I was on that tram, you bet your ass I would have taken on those fucks, my own safety be damned. That really pisses me off.

OT: I don't have them. If I didn't live on this planet anymore, I wouldn't be able to do any good.

 

[Rush Syks]

First, we were studying windmills. The professor was talking about how they don't produce any polution. I asked what, to me, was an obvious question: What is the polution per kw/hour compared to fossil fuel energy production, cradle to grave? Some moron in the class said "Nothing--they don't polute at all!" I had to patiently explain to the person--as I recall a junior in a 4-year acredited university--that metals and plastics don't magically form out of the aether, that motors and electrical wires don't apear fully-formed out of architects' minds in full battle armor, and that these structures, which can reach hundreds of feet into the air, aren't put up by magical unicorns that fart rainbows. I never did get my answer; apparently no one has ever thought to look into it. And it was an honest question; I had no agenda to push in asking it.

Well, to be a bit idealistic here, but if we had a completely renewable energy production, than producing all the components would be CO2 free as well. I know you get some other emissions as well in producing metals and stuff, but they are already beeing filtered during processing, at least in state of the art factories, which is what we should aim for.

OT: When I was younger I often had such moments when people used the ultimate excuse "but others will do it anyway", because if that is your mindset, than you might as well do everything up to murder and that lack of idealism depressed me. Please be a bit positive about humanity will you?

Now I realized that a lot of people say a lot of irrelevant stuff so I just try to act in way I can live with and hope others do as well.

 

[game-lover]

I was gonna give a few answers but then I realized they're not so much me not wanting to live on this planet anymore. But more the notice that... Humanity sucks.

Basically, it's what some peeps have replied before me. It's really the people. And sadly, more often than not, people suck. Not all of them of course but still.

You just... deal.

 

[Banana Cannon]

Only when I see a

"I'll just tell them you raped me"

post anywhere involving a relationship war/issue/management

Seriously, that's it. Fuck people who do that.

while not necessarily just that, but anytime someone goes so low to use any sort of lie/deception to get their way

to add on to your example:

"i'll just tell them you're a cheating asshole and turn everyone against you" (had this one used against me, she was almost effective in it but she stupidly sent it as a text so i saved it and unleashed the fury later on)

just..i hate how ignorantly selfish some people can be when they completely twist and use people's good will and benefit of the doubt moments to get their way/get ahead. fucking makes me sick to my stomach that they can be so low and actively be a waste of space and time.

Heh, I know one of those, its my own mother though. For years I've let her manipulate me into giving her money, fill me full of indignant rage in regards to the rest of my family (my own issues, but she made them worse), make me yearn for the stable family unit she wasn't capable of providing for me & still isn't, never mind the estranged & absent biological father, another kind of callow creature, or the child brother I now have who's separated from me by over 15 years.

Frankly, this little meme has related to me a bit too much & over the years I was turned into an insufferable, solitary person incapable of crawling out of the little pit of misery I dug for myself. About last year I've been making my way out & trying to give myself the security to not care about equally manipulative & petty sub-standard people, but there's just so many to contend with sometimes. I've gotta go easy on myself, forgive myself & give myself some focus & perspective, but for the sake of standards I have to attack other people over their conceited outlooks or blunt dishonesty, I feel I have to draw the line because nobody else will, raise the bar & smack em with it, so to speak.

Then I remember this most profound of lines from a little corner of my childhood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmYGUk3T2g

So, to reply to OP; People can always prove to be stupid, & people who you should be able to trust may be full of terrible flaws, but remember that the clarity you give yourself & the conviction to do better shall let you dictate your life as you see fit, instead of having it struggle in defiance or conform to the environment around you. So, for now, I guess I'll tough it out on Earth.