Anonymous
9/18/2025, 4:01:05 AM
No.96565200
>>96565145
I get it, it's difficult to wrap your mind around something that seems to us like an insane level of generosity, but the point you have to recognise is that to them it isn't insane because it costs them nothing except inconvenience, and given their technology even that isn't a big issue. Seriously, think about it, we're talking about a level of technology that would make you choosing to move house so someone else could have one they really want on the level of helping a stranger with a heavy bag for two minutes. It's trivial to them.
It's like, being asked to share a bar of chocolate with someone having a hypoglycemic reaction. To us, living in developed countries with levels of abundance our ancestors couldn't fathom, that's a trivial kindness, to the point I'd wager 99% of people would think you were a total cunt for saying
>Pff, it's MY chocolate, get your own!
right? We can maybe *imagine* a scenario where both you and the person who needs your help are both so impoverished and resource-starved that your selfishness would overcome your generosity, and even maybe a scenario where that was the socially acceptable baseline of behaviour, but it seems pretty alien to us in our context yeah?
To someone raised in a world without want, where every material need is met, where travel takes moments, and everyone has nigh-total freedom, giving up an apartment to someone who wants it more is as trivial as giving up half your chocolate bar is to you.
I get it, it's difficult to wrap your mind around something that seems to us like an insane level of generosity, but the point you have to recognise is that to them it isn't insane because it costs them nothing except inconvenience, and given their technology even that isn't a big issue. Seriously, think about it, we're talking about a level of technology that would make you choosing to move house so someone else could have one they really want on the level of helping a stranger with a heavy bag for two minutes. It's trivial to them.
It's like, being asked to share a bar of chocolate with someone having a hypoglycemic reaction. To us, living in developed countries with levels of abundance our ancestors couldn't fathom, that's a trivial kindness, to the point I'd wager 99% of people would think you were a total cunt for saying
>Pff, it's MY chocolate, get your own!
right? We can maybe *imagine* a scenario where both you and the person who needs your help are both so impoverished and resource-starved that your selfishness would overcome your generosity, and even maybe a scenario where that was the socially acceptable baseline of behaviour, but it seems pretty alien to us in our context yeah?
To someone raised in a world without want, where every material need is met, where travel takes moments, and everyone has nigh-total freedom, giving up an apartment to someone who wants it more is as trivial as giving up half your chocolate bar is to you.