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Unwitting self defacing.

  • 19-03-2006 1:15am
    #1
    KrankStricher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭


    What do you tjink of a belief, in which I am a firm believer, that far the most part, the things we dislike in our peers, and especially the things we choose to mock,jibe,out-take the piss-of them for, are the very things in our own personality that we despise.
    • Do we laugh at people's failed attempts to woo a young lady because we ourselves feel vulnerable in that department?
    • When we laugh at the fat, do we try to calm our own qualms of self image insecurities?
    etc.etc.

    (FTL; Do we mock others for our faults?")


Comments

  • #2
    Aporia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭Aporia


    well i don't usually mock people or put others down in real life but for some reason it's like the people that do have more respect. at my school there's this one guy that stands out from the others. he's really loud and ocassionally puts people down and is a complete backstabber that bitches about certain people. it makes me sick to see him crowded around by and always laughing when he's such a prick. he's all popular. he's 18/19 you think he'd be mature enough but is this a question of maturity what is it exactly that people find about this behaviour attractive...are they afraid

    why is this accepted in our society why do certain people feel to put others down is it really because they are insecure attention seeking people or, are they just genuinely mean people.


    no matter how much you'd like to deny this; we all put someone down on a regular basis but some people are more extreme in a sense. human nature - is it really that harsh.

    [btw, nevermind my lack of capitals i know it's cruel but i'm just too lazy tonight]

    at the end of the day vulnerability is unattractive


  • #3
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    No I don't agree with that.


  • #4
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    I think I dislike qualities in people that I see in myself or else I dislike things in people that are the complete opposite to what I am. It depends on what it is that I dislike.

    If someone is completely selfish, and you dislike them for it, it's quite likely that it is because you are unselfish and try to help other people out and you detest selfishness or whatever.


  • #5
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    ^
    Yeah that makes more sense


  • #6
    KrankStricher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭KrankStricher


    To_be_confirmed wrote:
    I think I dislike qualities in people that I see in myself or else I dislike things in people that are the complete opposite to what I am. It depends on what it is that I dislike.

    If someone is completely selfish, and you dislike them for it, it's quite likely that it is because you are unselfish and try to help other people out and you detest selfishness or whatever.


    That is a good point, however; the qualities that you dislike in others as they are the opposite of your own, could be caused by you projecting false qualities to qualm the fears you have of expressing your quality, the one which you dislike in the other.

    (FTL; "Works both ways and back-ways")


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