• verstra@programming.dev
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    18 days ago

    I mean father is right: the kid has much to learn. People might be kind in nature, but learn when they get ripped off from other people who have already lost their trusting nature.

    If only we could all reset to the kind, trusting human nature.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      If only we could all reset to the kind, trusting human nature.

      That thought has been with me for a while. Spoilers for Joe Haldeman’s Forever Peace, but he’s explored the concept in a fiction setting where humans can directly connect their brains to each other with a plug in the back of the skull, to directly feel each other’s feelings and body. They use it for sex and war machines, which is ridiculous at first, but then it makes sense.

      But the protagonists discover that if you connect to another you become “humanized”, and unable to do any harm whatsoever to any other human, seeing it as a damage upon one’s self.

      Pretty good book, would recommend.

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works
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      18 days ago

      If only we could all reset to the kind, trusting human nature.

      No one is stopping you. There’s plenty of it out there, you just have to be willing to see it (E: not to mention, it isn’t human nature that’s the problem that needs resetting, it’s capitalism that needs abolishing).