Poll for Jerks

[Narz]

Everyone can be a jerk from time to time. Some people however, take pride in developing thier jerkishness. This thread & poll is for them.

Please don't flame ("so-and-so should post in this thread", etc.). Be honest about yourself.

Poll is private to protect the not so innocent.

Oh, I should have added one more option : "I genuinely feel I'm helping others by pointing out their flaws in the most emotionally evocative way I know how"

 

[Kozmos]

Wow all of the poll options fit me.

 

[Godwynn]

I'm better at it than being nice. I'm genuinely apathetic to others. If they come to me with problems, I tell them to quit . .. .. .. .. .ing and try to fix it.

 

[Bill3000]

I'm a jerk only when it's justified. It just so happens that the stupidity on the internet, and in particular, CFC, is enough to justify it.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Being a jerk is easier than being nice. Being nice asks something of you in a two way exhange. You open yourself, become more vulnerable. When youre a jerk, you remain closed off and act more on others than youre acted upon. Jerkiness is about being afraid.

 

[Narz]

I'm a jerk only when it's justified. It just so happens that the stupidity on the internet, and in particular, CFC, is enough to justify it.

Yeah, but what do you get out of it?

 

[Phlegmak]

I'm a jerk only when it's justified. It just so happens that the stupidity on the internet, and in particular, CFC, is enough to justify it.

That's mostly it for me.

And to answer your question Narz, I get nothing out of it, except a false feeling of superiority.

 

[Firstlady]

I voted for the second one because it's really the only reason I act like a jerk on occasion...to get what I want, which is usually a sense of superiority, but very shortly after I realize what I got isn't what I wanted at all.

 

[Phlegmak]

Being a jerk is easier than being nice. Being nice asks something of you in a two way exhange. You open yourself, become more vulnerable. When youre a jerk, you remain closed off and act more on others than youre acted upon. Jerkiness is about being afraid.

Is your apostrophe key broken?

 

[Narz]

Jerkiness is about being afraid.

I tend to agree. It's also a primal need to dominate and feel powerful I think. It draws in weaker people to you that suck off your aura of dominance (or pseudo-dominance) and in exchange they cater to your ego a bit.

 

[Narz]

I voted for the second one because its really the only reason I act like a jerk on occasion...to get what I want..but very shortly after I realize what I got isn't what I wanted at all.

Yeah, I know the feeling.

 

[salty mud]

I try to be a normal person, but some people still think I'm queer.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

A large part of my self identity is being what I consider a good person, so if I am being a jerk it means I lost my temper and am behaving irrationally. This is different from being assertive; no one deserves to have me be a jerk to them, but they may require a little forcefulness from my part.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Is your apostrophe key broken?

Apostrophes are something that happen to other people.

I tend to agree. It's also a primal need to dominate and feel powerful I think. It draws in weaker people to you that suck off your aura of dominance (or pseudo-dominance) and in exchange they cater to your ego a bit.

It gives the illusion of strength. Both to the main jerk, and the lesser jerks. But the reality is that its just a dynamo of fear and insecurity. When you arent afraid, and feel secure within yourself, theres no compulsion to attack or to defend.

 

[Narz]

When you arent afraid, and feel secure within yourself, theres no compulsion to attack or to defend.

As usual, you're wrong. I'm totally 100% secure and just posting so you know you're pwned!

 

[Tee Kay]

I'm a lot better at being mean and destructive than being nice. That's the main reason I think.

 

[Firstlady]

Being a jerk is easier than being nice.

Exactly. Doing what is perceived as the right thing has always been harder.

 

[Kozmos]

S.R. is nice. Kozmos on the other hand is a sexist jerk, mostly because he derives a sadistic pleasure from it. (and the ladies dont seem to mind much)

Now my various alter-egos mixed with my core personality and yet somehow remained separate. And now I am something new, something wild. A cross between a jerk and a nice guy. Worthy of the title quasi-normal.

However, Kozmos still resurfaces, perhaps of my own need to be...evil.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I'm a very nice person, but I'm also very blunt with people. When I'm a jerk, it's because I've exhausted my niceness on them already; I'll always be nice before being a jerk.

Unless, of course, you wake me up at 5AM by beating a sledgehammer against my door. All bets are off at that point.

Yes, that has happened before, and yes, people across campus heard me yell. At 5AM.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Exactly. Doing what is perceived as the right thing has always been harder.

Because doing whats right requires responsibility. Until people are prepared to handle responsibility, its hard to do whats right, or even be sure what right is.