You’re the one who started this thing off by speaking in extremes. Again, you’re taking “sometimes some people don’t support you so you won’t have someone holding your hand 100% of the time” as “it’s logical that you’re going to be alone forever”
That’s illogical, binary thinking. Things aren’t so black and white. Some people will have an estimated 98% reliability for emotional support, some might have much lower. It’s circumstantial to the person and the situation.
With your logic, unless something is 100% going to happen, it may as well be 0%. That’s like, almost an inverse of a gambler thinking that even if there’s a miniscule chance of winning the lottery, it’s 100% guaranteed.
Did… Did your even read the article you posted?
In humans, there is evidence that infants exhibit altruistic behavior beginning at a young age. For example, infants as young as 14–18 months of age assist others in obtaining out-of-reach objects and help to open cabinets for others.7 Infants engage in these behaviors without reward or encouragement from an adult and expectedly without knowledge of concepts such as reciprocation and reputation.
Previous behavioral research suggests that humans willingly interact with strangers in ways that are beneficial to others, even when it is not in their own best interest.8 Additionally, humans have been reported to continue to engage in altruistic behaviors even in situations when there will be no future interaction.9 Fehr and Fischbacher3 suggest that if two strangers are allowed to engage in repeated anonymous monetary exchanges in the laboratory, there exists a high probability that altruistic behavior will spontaneously emerge. Therefore, these findings propose that there appears to be a natural tendency for humans to exhibit altruistic behaviors.
Literally parenting a child is altruistic in nature. Sometimes, as defined by the article, reciprocal.
Reciprocity, which is similar to altruism in that the action may be harmful to the self and beneficial to another, involves the expectation that the other person will act similarly in a subsequent interaction.
Your perspective is twisted, you need to go out and touch grass and interact with people in person if you think everything is transactional.
So where’s this “logic” you speak of that no one ever does this for anyone, and it’s a universal trait to not have this experience?
Weird, because raising a child, or a child helping a parent, doesn’t really strike me as a transaction. Helping people out isn’t really transactional. None of what you described seemed as a transaction.
I contest that it is not a logical conclusion, and more likely you’re suffering from loneliness and not coming to that conclusion with a clear mind.
You want people to be “truly relied on”? What does that mean? At your beck and call with whatever whims one has? People can be reliable but there are limits. Unless you yourself think it’s acceptable to be everyone else’s gopher.
What’s your standard for being reliable that makes you, through a twisted facsimile of rationality, think you’re going to be alone? Why would someone have to meet that standard to give you company?
Sounds like capitalist propaganda. I’m not sure what your childhood was like but parental love isn’t really transactional, and if it was for you then I feel really sorry for you.
Like our healthcare, it’s good if you can afford the overblown price gouging, and terrible for about 99% of us. People choose where to live entirely off of the school district. Whatb your zip code is can tell whether you’re going to be successful or not.
Damned auto correct
There’s like, 20 or more honorifics in Japanese. I think that -sama is more culturally equivalent for the Appalachian sir/ma’am, but those honorifics, iirc, usually have to go with a name or a job or something, while the Appalachian sir/ma’am can be used with strangers.
Well if you want to keep a similar motif, Cap’n is vaguely formal, vaguely military esque, and it’s gender neutral. Could be seafaring or land based.
You probably won’t find anything with the same level of formality as sir/ma’am, so you’re going to have to compromise a little bit on that front, but I think people will like the attempt regardless!
Ok so reading the comments, from Appalachia, and I didn’t see it about anyone specific.
So the reason why nothing seems correct is because nothing new will have the same level of cultural history. If you’re trying to show social deference to people things like “friend” or “pal” won’t work, and “chief” sounds too informal.
You can still use “sir” and “ma’am” under most circumstances, so the question is more about your circumstances.
Are you trying to find something that replaces those honorifics all together, or do you want a backup third option in case someone says they are non binary?
Are you still in the same culture, or have you moved to a culture that doesn’t emphasize honorifics like you were raised with?
Didn’t be a pedant, and don’t laugh after being a pedant. It’s condescending and rude.
You can just do that ya know. Just be a wizard. Tell people to address you as such. Don’t even have to be trans you can change your name and everything
Screw heads
Ok that’s misleading a bit. The poll asked if you’d rather live in a larger house that’s further from other people but stuff like restaurants are miles away, or smaller and closer together but stuff like restaurants are within walking distance. I’m paraphrasing but only slightly here.
You’re extrapolating the car based and walking based part, but these people could also want more public transportation and bike routes. Maybe these people already live in cramped apartment buildings and just dream of having a big house. There’s other factors than just “me dum American me want car”
Dude literally could’ve make intimate resources and distribute them eliminating even that problem and still fucked it up
His motivation in the movies was even dumber than the one in the comics. Seriously have you not understood people can breed? Also with the gems you could make more resources like, forever.
Doesn’t body dysmorphia exist outside of society though? I don’t know if there’s been any anthropological study done, but I would assume that it would exist and be traumatizing regardless of the society you were in.
The engineer destroys the planet, those monsters are just trying to fight back against pollution!