Comment by pdimitar

Since you are persisting, OK, point by point.

> It came from a genuine interest in seeing you grow as a person, despite what you might think

This is your mistake here, to think I need to grow further. I did. I got to the other end you were scared to explore. I understood that kindness will only get you killed in a back-alley if you kept practicing it.

Purely mathematically, it's a function with a limit. This is the part you refuse to see.

You are the one who both needs to grow as a person and sharpen his analytical skills.

This is what I meant by saying you use roundabout ways of insulting.

> The way I read your post is that you, yourself, are effectively insulting people close to me, including friends and family. It's hard for me not to perceive it as naive dehumanism.

Fair to see it that way. I do not mean offense in particular, I simply don't mince words. To me you are hopelessly idealistic and don't live in the real world. Seeing homeless people struggling to make ends meet? Witnessing soup kitchens?

Brother, I've seen much worse than this but unlike you I didn't quickly get to parade it in the hopes of coming across as kinder than your discussion partner. I'll save the gross details of everything I witnessed for myself. Was not the topic here anyway.

So OK, I don't object to you thinking I am insulting. Was not the original intent but I am aware it does come across aggressive. I am simply old enough to stop caring and write like ChatGPT, that's all.

...Plus I am not from the USA. Here's one strong clue why we are so much... not alike.

> People warm up to genuine curiosity and I think you'll find that there's so much more love out there than you give humanity credit for.

That I never denied and never will. I was talking about the scum; the people who don't want to fight their way out of the dump. They love the dump, and they see you and me as free money, free clothes, free phones, and will never change. Yes, they never will change, you read that right. I've been among those people. Lived around them.

So maybe you are the one who got sidetracked and believed I am some stupido who loves to generalize. That's on you however, not on me.

I know there are people who genuinely want to come back to society and, here is the part where you will not believe me and will be convinced I am only saying it to "win" -- I helped three of them do it. The gratitude I got was that they became even better off than me and spat on me. :)

So yeah, cheers indeed. I'll go drink a glass of wine for humanity's inevitable downfall. Shame I won't live long enough to witness it, I'd laugh and even help accelerate it if I could.