desensitizing yourself- good or bad?

[Borachio]

This one isn't too bad, but it made me lol:

http://caliser.com/9-celebrities-who-ruined-their-faces/10/

'This Korean model/singer takes the cake, or rather the cooking oil. A woman who was once among the beautiful elite became so compulsively inclined toward plastic surgery that when doctors cut her off she injected herself with cooking oil. The result was so drastic and horrific that the all the attempts to reconstruct proved insufficient to reverse the damage she had wrought. However, the attempts at least brought her back to her happy place – under the knife.'

Lolololololol. But then again she is just a stupid cow and deserves being ridiculed.

'Im one of the top 5% most beautiful humans in the world ... Lets inject my face with cooking oil'.

I remember someone telling me that we should feel especially sympathetic for those who've got no one to blame but themselves.

But I'm curious as to what life experiences have lead you to this position (of sociopath). And whether, by your own lights, I shouldn't be ridiculing you for it.

 

[caketastydelish]

"Too weak to survive"? Christ, what is this, the nineteenth century?

I think it's reasonable to observe we morn over first world celebs who die for whatever stupid reason and tend not to care for people in third world countries that die over bigger, actual problems.

 

[Borachio]

Isn't my lack of sympathy for people in 3rd world countries dying over bigger actual problems something I can fix quite easily?

 

[Traitorfish]

I think it's reasonable to observe we morn over first world celebs who die for whatever stupid reason and tend not to care for people in third world countries that die over bigger, actual problems.

Is it necessary to express that in Hitlertalk, though? I mean, you just said it like a normal person, why couldn't they?

 

[Tee Kay]

I think I'm more or less desensitised to mental health issues.

I consciously recognise them as being important, but I don't feel much emotionally.

 

[Borachio]

<wrong thread>

 

[bhavv]

I remember someone telling me that we should feel especially sympathetic for those who've got no one to blame but themselves.

But I'm curious as to what life experiences have lead you to this position (of sociopath). And whether, by your own lights, I shouldn't be ridiculing you for it.

I remember teaching myself never to listen to anyone else because everyone elses opinions suck, as my opinions suck to you.

 

[bhavv]

I think I'm more or less desensitised to mental health issues.

I consciously recognise them as being important, but I don't feel much emotionally.

Exactly how I feel, and I have many mental health issues.

Also I'm confident that this is how most people are, because I'm sick and tired of constantly hearing 'How the heck are you getting benefits for that?' or similar.

My new rule is anything medical is to only be discussed with health care professionals. Everyone else, including myself, is an idiot / emotionless troll about all such issues unless they affect you personally.

One doctor even told me 'You shouldn't go around telling people that you have this'.

 

[Borachio]

I remember teaching myself never to listen to anyone else because everyone elses opinions suck, as my opinions suck to you.

But your opinions do matter to me.

As far as I can tell you seem to be verging on nihilism. And I'm curious why.

 

[useless]

Dehumanize yourself and face to bloodshed?

 

[bhavv]

I don't believe all life is meaningless!

Just human life.

<3 animals. Humans suck. I am a misanthrope.

 

[Borachio]

Human beings are animals.

And if you're a misanthrope that must mean you hate yourself too. It's a hopelessly dissonant position, imo.

 

[bhavv]

Oh yes, I love non human species <3.

Ofc I hate myself too!

 

[Borachio]

What? EVERYTHING about yourself?

 

[Kyriakos]

And I, I, I, hate everything about you na-nana-na-na.


Link to video.

 

[bhavv]

What? EVERYTHING about yourself?

Especially the part about being a weak fleshy human. I want cybernetic augmentation now!

 

[Borachio]

So, let me get this straight: you hate everything about yourself, including the fact that you want cybernetic augmentation now?

Why not just stop wanting cybernetic augmentation if you don't like wanting it?

Do you see how contradictory your position seems to me?

 

[Kyriakos]

So, let me get this straight: you hate everything about yourself, including the fact that you want cybernetic augmentation now?

Why not just stop wanting cybernetic augmentation if you don't like wanting it?

Do you see how contradictory your position is?

Borachio is the resident Parmenides

Indeed, one cannot hate everything about himself without also hating hating everything about himself.

Of course they can hate all with variations that still allow a relative balance of this contradictory (and inherently unstable) position. As narrated by Antiphon, the horse-keeper in Ceramicus, circa 380 BC.

 

[bhavv]

So, let me get this straight: you hate everything about yourself, including the fact that you want cybernetic augmentation now?

Why not just stop wanting cybernetic augmentation if you don't like wanting it?

Do you see how contradictory your position seems to me?

No. I think the whole issue is that you didn't / don't understand misanthropy in the first place.

 

[El_Machinae]

I think I'm more or less desensitised to mental health issues.

I consciously recognise them as being important, but I don't feel much emotionally.

That's too bad. It's probably where most of the suffering will be in a few decades. It's also ripe for a concerted medical-science push. And the current and future victims have the least resources to aid in their own progress. There will be a lot of win/win synergy available too, for everyone else with a brain.