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Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2
No.* It is human nature and it is inevetable and impossible to change. When faced with someone who is inconsiderate of others in the group, humans don't give up hope** until the inconsiderate person either 1)wanders away to (presumably) annoy other people or 2) dies from internal bleeding due to the treatment they directly force the members of the group to apply.
*I'm assuming that you mean 'self-gratification' to mean something more than 'every action ever taken by a member of the species.'
**by 'hope,' I mean 'acting consistently as if they believe there is a chance that the inconsiderate person will change.'
This is suprisingly wrong.
When faced with somethign gratifying, people rarely give up. When it's something they think would be good to change then they give up hope easily if it's no fun trying to change it.
Having a go at someone is gratifying for most of us, we all enjoy it. Some especially enjoy it if they have the crowd on their side vs a few. It's inevitably justified by saying the person deserves it or they are being worthy but that's generally hooey (even though it can be true as well)
I speak as somone who keeps going even when it's no fun. People think I'm odd and that's because it is odd.
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*I'm assuming that you mean 'self-gratification' to mean something more than 'every action ever taken by a member of the species.'
Of course, just like when we talk about people being selfish. We can dumb it down to everythign we do is gratfyign or we wouldn't do it but that misses everything interesting.
Last edited by chezlaw; 09-14-2016 at 02:42 AM.