The Workermonkey

Thursday, January 29, 2004

human nature is f'd up.. 

# posted by josh @ 1/29/2004 01:49:00 PM

if the beginning here bores you, human nature stuff is middle-end...
i think you may be retarded court, but its' all good...we still got love for you. and let me be the first to congratulate you for bein the first estrogen-bearing poster on the multipurpose workermonkey. also, wha'ts this about goin to visit prettyboy---i mean zac, sorry? and what the hell is he doing in taiwan? hell, even i would feel tall over there.

so everything's goin pretty well lately. 2 tests this week and i should do ok on both, although i'm kinda shrugging them off. my latest struggle is with this piece of shit computer i'm on. got some damn virus last semester, got it kinda fixed, but stuff's still fucked up. but i can do everything except use the internet well. i can only access things from my homepage or from my favorites. and the internet just shuts itself down a lot as well as freezing. it's a pain in my ass, but i'm putting up with it cuz i'm probably gonna shell out some cash this summer and buy myself a new one for law school. but it makes it hard to do simple things like try to buy stuff online. teh valley mall here in the burg is less than adequate, and both valentine's day and erica's birthday are coming up. i may be in some shit.

the human nature stuff.......

oh ok so get this shit. monday night our apt got straight up robbed. they took our tv, my braves clock, and the fuckin vacuum. who steals a vacuum, honestly??? our roommate lexi goes in and out at all hours of the night (she's on a leave of absence this semester and is just workin at a restaurant), and i think she left teh door unlocked. cuz they took all the stuff while we were in there sleeping. it's weird too, cuz my roommate scott said he heard somethin at like 3am but figured it was just lexi comin in or goin out w/ friends. and come to think of it, i may have heard it too. you know, i didnt need any more of a reason to have contempt for human beings, i think i was doin ok before.

i guess this is part of the reason i find it hard to have compassion for people. i was raised to give a lot of effort into all i do, and when that happened i usually succeeded, so i guess i hold others to a high standard as well. and maybe that's not fair. but maybe it is. look at yourself and all our friends. we are all in a pretty good position i think. and i think we all got htere by working hard when we needed to. we're capable of a lot if we just try. and sure there are injustices and stuff in this world, but i hate people who complain and give up when a minor bump in the road comes along. that's life. how do these people survive natural selection? maybe i will make a good lawyer. and now cuz people apparently just think it's ok, or funny, or whatever to go into someone else's house and take what they want, i view people with even less respect.

i'm really starting to believe something along the lines of thomas hobbes...that humans by nature are in fact evil. look at babies: they want all the attention, little kids always want their way, we have to be taught to share, not to lie, and other general rules of society which are now taken as common sense (at least by law abiding adults). only by making laws do we restrict behavior. and why do laws need to be made? cuz if they werent then people would do what comes natural, and it would harm themselves and/or others. they're called regulative rules. they limit what we (or the govt) can do, and they are set up, according to john arthur (philosopher of law), because if we didnt have them we would be likely to go against our inclinations of what was right or ethical. for example, if we think it's bad that we eat ice cream, but we know if we had it in the house we would eat it everyday, then we make a rule not to buy ice cream when we're at the store. laws keep human instinct in check, cuz humans are assholes. luckily we create friendships with people we can trust, and know at times that we are safe from people as a whole.

ok thats long enough for now, haha. just thought i'd throw that out there for comment/argument

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