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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Can we at least get cocaine back in the soft drinks?

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[–] greenskye@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To me it's rather that the would-be fixers have just been tricked into thinking this violence is the solution when it's not, causing their efforts to be short circuited.

I mean peaceful solutions seem to have the same problem. It'll seem like it works for awhile and then later generations realize that that issue was never really resolved. Just look at the civil rights movement. Supposedly solved 'peacefully' by MLK, but as we've all come to learn, the only thing that happened was that racists just grew quiet for awhile and waited for a chance to be racists again.

It's true, and it seems to be an unfortunate fact of the current state of the human animal. The capacity for and expression of such things as compassion and the desire for earnest cooperation is too new to humanity on the evolutionary timescale. Technology has developed much faster, raising the stakes of the periodic violence higher and higher. I hope the human race can weather it until the capacity for compassion becomes more widespread.