Originally posted by NemeBro
They told me that they want no one else to succeed. They hate most people. There are times when they look at people and see nothing worth liking. They want to earn enough money that they can get away from everyone.
That sounds more like misanthropy than sociopathy. Could be both.
Re: If nice guys finish last?
Originally posted by atv2Yes and yes.
We've heard the saying that nice guys finish last, if this is true then should he alter his mindset to become the badguy in order to be first? Would it be worth it?
And if you think about it, everyone else is going to tell you to be nice precisely so that they are not last.
Kindness comes in one form in the conventional sense. But because of the fact that you stated in the topic title; the cruel rule.
The one who's going to liberate and empower the meek is going to be the necessary evil. And he is going to die in 48 years so that he cannot live long enough to see himself become the last villain. In the only kind act he'll have performed in 23 years, 48 years from now. Death at age 46.
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Metempsychosis with a martyr who bought hundreds of thousands of years by bearing the weight of their; as Sagan put it, "dangerous evolutionary baggage", on his narrow shoulders. He'll have purchased 23 years of ecstasy with the first 23 miserable years of his life, and hundreds of thousands of apathetic and prosperous years for everyone else - living youthfully beside their thousands of newer generations.
It stands to reason that the idea of being nice has inexorably led to a world of people who are "paying it forward". Hence the reason why nice guys don't finish last. This unspoken rule, the golden rule, is it really the great universal equalizer? That would mean we've excelled at moral rationalization.
Moral decisions are perhaps the most convoluted ones we face, and humans are very vexed by anything that is less than simplistic.
For that reason, we have the world you see today, as opposed to the Technological Utopia that it could be.
Machines will never be able to think, but they are already superior at carrying out all tasks a human could. Physically limitless in application, vastly more farseeing in calculation, self-sustaining, and ever-improving.