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Originally Posted by Fluribus
It's a lot easier to be cruel to the faceless nonentity floating in the mist. Which is why I'm an online pacifist. Maybe I'm just a wuss who hates arguments.
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despise being cruel to people, yet my family instilled a horrible facility for it, hence my nights of colorful self-flagellation.
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A party, even a small one, would be much more draining, however.
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I don't consider four friends to constitute a party.
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I don't really see the fascination with smart people.
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Everything's more fun when you're with creative people -- insights about things you've experienced, brainstorming, volleys of free association, etc.
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I'm much happier to be around kind people.
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Most of the smart people I know are also the kindest. The few who aren't contort themselves while attempting to justify their cruelty, which often means they're altruism's agnostics -- ineradicably empathetic people who don't yet believe in the primacy of empathy.