I have no idea.
We grow em big around here.
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I agree with this. Many Americans for a long time supported wars and policies that have destroyed, altered, or ended the lives of people living on the other side of the world and their fellow Americans.
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Wanting to mutilate your body is definitely not sane behavior, but if you say this you are a bigot and transphobic.
So honestly, at this point I just don’t give a fuck. Let their suicide rates keep skyrocketing passed the normal average by multiples and eventually it will weed itself out. Yes, that is harsh, but I am not going to play along with the delusion or get put up to be destroyed by the woke mob for trying to actually help them.
I am good. You do you and leave me the fuck alone.
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Yep. Take a police officer who arrives on scene and finds a man threatening to cut off his wiener. That guy is going to be taken into custody for a mental evaluation. And the officer isn’t going to have a choice in the matter if he wants to keep his job. But it becomes sane, even celebrated and brave, if you take a few extra steps to get rid of your dick.
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An appropriate place to look for the celebration of gang life, criminality, prison life, perversion, hedonism, anti-sociality, and mental illness is the YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly, which has over 4 million subscribers. The interviewer and channel owner is neutral for most of his questioning and commentary, which I appreciate.
However, the celebration is to be seen in many of the comments.
The gist of the comments for people with the aforementioned traits: They are “geniuses,” people we can “learn so much from,” “keeping it real,” “been through a lot,” “inspiring,” “tell it like it is,” “not uptight,” “wise,” and so on.
To such people morally constrained, employed, rule abiding, sober, sane, and disciplined, and family people (most or all here on this forum) are “fake,” “hypocritical” “uptight,” “rigid,” and “boring.”
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All of this is born out of the want for no accountability combined with an extreme entitled narcissistic laziness.
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And I saw what your retired saw. We were told by others when we acted crazy, “They’ll be sending the men in the white suits for you if you don’t straighten up.”
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Totally.
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That channel is an amazing expose of lives and people most would never meet, or admit to meeting and knowing.
But yeah, peoples takeaway from the videos can be just as stupid, decadent, appalling and violent as the videos themselves.
I loved his response to criticism of his series on the Whitakers. He was accused of taking advantage of them/their state, so he now gives all proceeds from their videos back to them. Definitely elevated their standard of living.
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My parents had that album when I was just a wee skyzy. We (me & siblings) would put it on all the time and just go bonkers. 
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Not to get too religious, but if you take God out of the equation you can say, “there is no God, the universe is indifferent, if not downright hostile, to humanity so people shouldn’t think they are that special.”
Or, you can fill the void God left and put yourself in His place. Guess which option the woke choose.
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I’ve only seen a few of the videos, and I certainly wouldn’t want to live the kind of life featured on the channel, but I do think they can be good for some people to watch. I saw enough craziness growing up that I’m fairly aware of what goes on in the world, but I do think most people who are unaware of that side of life might benefit from seeing what others have done/gone through. Too much compassion can become enabling but no compassion isn’t good either.
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The longer I live and more I see the less compassion I have for adults and the more compassion I have for children.
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I get that, and largely agree. But some people I know went through so much unimaginable shit as children that I can’t find it in me to blame them for how they are as adults. I knew a girl who was raped by her (biological) dad basically from ~age 7 till late teen years. When she got knocked up by a loser a few years after leaving home, I wasn’t shocked. One girl I went to school with had a mom who would abuse her horrifically, including doing things like setting the girl’s fingers on fire. Child Called “It” kind of stuff. When that girl OD’ed on heroin in her 20s, I didn’t judge her for her addiction.
If you’re just a lazy 30 year old who complains about being broke because you were never taught how to work hard? Yeah, suck it up. But sometimes I let someone off the hook if I know just how bad they might’ve had it. Doesn’t mean I’m fine with them hurting other people, but it’s hard to expect them to become healthy, functioning, successful people. Not impossible, but hard.
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I have empathy for some of the people he has had on, innocent people who had serious misfortune in their lives to no fault of their own (ex soldiers, victims of abuse, accident survivors, etc.).
He recently interviewed a cop who went to my old gym.
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I can empathise with a lot of them.
The part I don’t like is in the comments where people are basically titilated by the experience of others who have suffered very badly.
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People who have had truly horrific circumstances are a different subset.
Most people are not in this category and are just lazy and entitled. My comments were aimed at these - the majority.
I can have empathy to poor situations not of their making, but at some point you have to stop feeling sorry for yourself and move on.
I have buried a brother and a pregnant fiance at a young age. Did it suck? Fuck yes, but I did not let it control the rest of my life. Going through that I could see how someone could take the easier road into drugs, addiction, etc. But, it is still no excuse and it is a choice. You are responsible for your actions as an adult - always.
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Also a good point. My worldview (Christian) says we’re all made in God’s image and therefore inherently special.
But that also means God doesn’t make mistakes by putting a brain/soul in the wrong body. So when people expect me to pretend like the creator of the universe made an oopsie, and act like a man really is a woman, I can’t. Doing so would be sinful.
But I can still be loving toward individuals. The pronouns I tend to use when speaking to them are natural and respectful: “How are you?”
At the same time, I worry that in an effort to be compassionate, we end up getting taken advantage of. And this can be particularly dangerous for women.
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