God, why are people so thick?

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League Girl, you made me think of how people seem to think that one exception disproves the rule. To re-use your example, if I said "Most people are bad drivers", I guarantee someone will immediately name a good driver, and take a contrary stance to what I said as if they've proved me wrong, even though "most" allows for there being many good drivers. They just don't get it.

what, you're not allowed to hate both hot and cold weather? There's no such thing as mild weather? Yeah, talk about thick...

I try not to let these people get to me and I just tell myself those people have high standards and are too stupid. I just don't get it. I feel I am required to write an essay. An example be:


I hate bad drivers, they tail gate me and cut me off, honk at me to break traffic laws like running a red light, and they think going fast gets them there quicker.


Now for the essay part:


Of course I don't run into this every time I drive, it happens like every other week when I am on the road and there are lot of good drivers in my area.



Yes I feel I have to add more details because if I said in the future in one of my new posts that there are lot of good drivers and I don't run into bad ones often, bam people think I am contradicting myself. Sometimes I wonder if I should start having fun with these people by quoting my posts and dummy them up by adding in more detail and put them all in bold for stupid people to see in case they think it has to be only one, not both. They be in bold for everyone to see that I added that part in and it be to poke fun at those people and then say "Okay I have now added in more details for people who cannot figure it out on their own so I had to spell it out for them."

Added where bolded for people who cannot figure that part out on their own so I spelled it out for them so they wouldn't think I am contradicting myself.



Oh wait, when I did do this at Babycenter (writing an essay, not quoting my own post and adding more detail to it in bold), women still got all offended with what I said and only listened to the first part of it and ignored the rest because it was a "contradiction." That just shows me they were looking to be offended or else they would have listened to the good part only, not the negative part only. Maybe next time I do that, I should put at the end "PS if you get all offended at what I said, then you were looking for something to be offended over or else you would have ignored the negative part and only listened to the positive. Who likes being offended?"


Turning bad things into good things makes it all fun now.


Oh yeah what I just said here was all wishful thinking and based on my fantasy because this idea popped in my head, I don't know if I will actually start doing it but it's an idea I just came up with. Just making sure.


Oh yeah I just wrote that in case anyone thinks I contradict myself in the future if I failed to do what I thought of doing what I just wrote about in this post. Man can I stop writing my essay now? I hope you get the idea without having me to write more

The US education process (in public school and with friends and family) is very short on development of logical thinking. The example in this thread is the False Dichotomy. "If you are not tall, you must be short." People often graduate from many years of college without the ability to mentally weigh and compute ideas.

We have a culture of divisiveness: "Don't hang out with *those* people. Our club is better. It's us or them."

We have a culture of judgementalism: "You are dumb. You are not talented. You dress funny."

We have a culture of superiority: "I am better than you." It is a pecking order game where everyone is told to climb over others to the top--or you are "lazy".

Combine all these maladies and you have a dysfunctional society, unable to conduct meaningful conversation and unable to honestly care for the needy.

It is very sad. I don't know how to fix things. I decided to always try to push each discussion 1% closer to logical thinking. Over time, maybe the cumulative effects with make a difference in my part of the world.

So the problem is the lack of logical thinking so people are like this? That explains it.

No wonder my mother says I am very logical. I think about things all the time and speculate and think of all the possibilities before jumping to conclusions. it's like abstract thinking I do. People seem to lack this and mom says I'm a concrete thinker? But she has also admitted I can think in abstract concepts when I am calm.

I tend to think people are idiots when they don't think like me but I only think that way when I am frustrated. *essay part* But if I ever say people thinking different doesn't make them stupid, it's because I was frustrated when I said people are idiots when they think different because I was frustrated at the time so that was how I felt at the time when I said it. *end essay*


Okay I think everyone here gets the idea now by what I mean by needing to write an essay.