• Flying Squid
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    1945 months ago

    Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to go through life without a sense of shame.

    • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      485 months ago

      It actually seems like it feels pretty great. The downside is you’re probably some degree of sociopath or other disorder. But I’m neither qualified nor experienced to diagnose.

    • Track_Shovel
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      385 months ago

      A friend and I were discussing this. It seems like these days it’s more rewarding, objectively, to be a shitbag than to actually be a good human. We’re constantly being played for suckers despite having morals. Everyone else is cheating in this tragedy of the moral commons.

    • @ours@lemmy.world
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      105 months ago

      The sci-fi books/series “The Expanse” features a rogue lab where all the scientists got the part of their brain responsible for empathy intentionally destroyed.

      I sometimes think about that and wonder what it would be to be like that. How easy it would be to make a ton of money. And how sad it must be for these people to live only for themselves.