I mean those people who you look at them and they have the body and responsibilities of a 43 year old but then you hear them talk about other people or other ethnicities or other situations that people are experiencing elsewhere and the person had might as well be a remorseless 3 year old that was raised wrongly… The thing that floors me is hen you meet a very old person, Im talking in their 60s or older, and they start spewing some of the most negative IQ , narcisisstic garbage a person could ever talk of… ‘You spent all these years learning nothing?!’

Is it really THAT hard to break free of the chains of your terrible childhood and develop just a little empathy , understanding and humanity towards others? I DEFINITELY didnt have the best childhood seeing as how I was bullied and ostracized for decades , even by my parents lol, but I came to realize that ‘Hurt people will hurt people.’ so why am I going to go out of my way to be selfish and make more people who are hurt? But on the other hand I see , and Im sure most of you also have seen, that humans are not a very logicsl species sometimes. We have the potential to be more logical than Einstein but it doesnt always play out like that… We as a species do A LOOOT of things based on anti-logic, emotions, our pains, our traumas, or our cognitive distortions and this in turn sometimes creates more ‘hurt people’ …

Im not saying that humans have gotten worse over time cause anybody here can open up wikipedia and read about all the awful things we used to do to each other , if anything we have gotten better just a little bit. But why are there STILL in the year of 2026 people who choose to just not ‘grow up’ ?

TL;DR too many adults , and even seniors , Ive emcountered have illogical and sometimes psychopathic opinions . Why do so many people choose to not grow up and be more understanding?

What is your take on something like this?

    • UnequalExchange@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 hours ago

      isnt that when a person becomes a senior citizen?

      To me 40 is old cause thats when your athleticism and your recovery time start to slow down.

      • andrewta@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        Please let me be there when you tell your mom and dad that very old is 60 years old, and that when you turn 40 you lose your athleticism

      • RBWells@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        Ha! How long are you planning to be old? That is insane. If you are old at 40 you could be old for over half your life!

        I am near 60. I bike to work, work over 40 hours a week, do yoga 4 days a week, lift twice a week. Definitely slower, can’t run but not really old yet, as far as I can tell. I think very old is over 75 usually - that’s when people start to feel like they have lived long, and start really seeing people they know die of old age.

        And if I am going to live to 90, as the statistics seem to think, I can’t really be OLD until I am like 80.