#So much of is it good-or neutral- humans

[rinrinlovee]

nihilism drives me mad

#my father's all freaked out because my grandmother listed a desk for sale #and now someone will have to drop by the house to pick it up #and honestly it's just so infuriating to hear day in day out 'grug think all human bad. grug want kill.' #Like my fucking GOD #Do none of you have a single shred of faith in your species?? #Throwing a little hissy fit because someone that none of us know will be stopping by is at best odd #And are worst insane !! #It's truly a wonder how such paranoid people have managed to navigate life this far #I am in no means a people person #Just had an anxiety attack over strangers today in fact #But at least I'm not a freak who cannot fathom that not everyone is looking to harm people #The Bad People are literally just reported on more #So it seems like there's more bad people !! #Well behaved women seldom make history #literally #I am just. so done constantly dealing with their cynicism to everything #Then they have the audacity to call me naive when I become upset over it #Literally the opposite of naive! There is wisdom in knowing the nuance of human morals #and being able to recognise that while it seem like the world can be scary and full of bad people #So much of is it good-or neutral- humans #entirely utterly frustrating #I love humans with my entire heart and soul and to hear people ragging on the species is infuriating

[dykemerrilll]

one thing i am finding so interesting about eight is that his desire not to alienate people by being deceitful and manipulative like seven means that in order to keep them around and not end up so lonely again he lies to them constantly and is in fact deceitful and manipulative

#dw #idk i get this is the feeling this is an unpopular interpretation #but i think not telling charley she technically died and ending the chimes of midnight refusing to talk about it #is like. not good behaviour #this isn’t critical by the way #i think he’s great and this is very fun #but it’s like he’s very invested in being this fun silly goofy guy who just loves humans and is a great best friend #who goes on loads of adventures and sees the world! #and this is all ultimately quite morally neutral thus far #he’s nonviolent as much as he can be he doesn’t like punching people he doesn’t enjoy guns #but he also doesn’t have the whole ‘i am the world’s BEST guy’ thing #it’s more about who he is just as a guy to know #but like he’s still the doctor. he’ll outlive charley regardless. and every other companion he could ever have #it’s like this fairytale desire to hide from that. it’s so crunchy

[soldier-poet-king]

Literally beating back my brain with a stick. Why are you LIKE THIS. We resolved - or at least came to an uneasy tentative truce with - the absolute dogshit self esteem issues eons ago. Why are were BACK here fighting the having zero concept of personhood or self worth problems. Even /if/ my brain is right and I'm garbage bad non-person whos a burden and just manipulating ppl into caring abt me. Like even IF that's true. I can't self sacrifice and do Good when I'm obsessively navel gazing. Even if the fundamental belief at the core of my being is that I'm worthless, I gotta stop ACTIVELY thinking abt it BC I need to be DOING things and dragging myself thru hot coals for others, not just obsessing about how bad I am that I can't even do that. If I can't even do that what am I good for? What's the purpose of me at all?

AHHHHHHHHH

#franposting #this is moody whiny complaining sorry friends #i will be ok #i just need. to not think #hollow out myself until theres nothing left but duty and obligation to the good #until all the selfishness and solipsism and preoccupation with my own worthlessness is gone #until i stop wanting basic human things like comfort and goodness. thats not for me to want. its for me to provide outwards #i am forgetting to do good #and sure maybe positive self belief would be better. but im honestly unsure im capable of that. or even neutral #i just need to transformthe self disgust into action #stop moping start doing #its hard when im beyond exhausted every waking minute #but i have to try. have to learn to function with headaches and bone deep tiredness #i cannot live with my selfish comfort anymore #<i literally know being bored at work isnt helping #idle mind and no feeling of accomplishment #but what else am i to do. i have done. so much busywork #i have stretched out every task. I'm just . so bored #i need to be productive and useful to be good

[craycraybluejay]

Anouther is the most chaotic neutral being, isn't hy?

#anoutherposting #chaotic neutral #'i do what i want' personified #true neutral could work too but i dont follow rules and regulations because i believe in it i do it if and when it benefits me #i do believe most people fall on lawful something or other #a lot of people kinda just like to be commanded and do as they're told #which ik is absolutely Normal in the human race but will never understand regardless #maybe it's just bc anyone who's ever tried to make a decision for me or force me into making a decision has been badawful #so the concept of obeying is a foreign and alien intrusion #but power is so easy to abuse that idrc how i got to be the person i am #i am just happy that i do not give more than i take in most cases #people in general are both selfish and communal. selfishness is not inherently bad or wrong-- it is alive #selfishness can prompt us to work and care for others just as much as The Social Instinct #and i'm honestly more comfortable with people who have accepted that they can be selfish and thats okay #both giving and accepting help is selfish. but we can all agree it is inherently good to help each other #so basically like every other human thing selfishness is ambivalent and has both positive and negative applications #idk where i'm going with this essay mx.

[kamil-a]

occasionally trying to articulate something abt poth the bodcast and the way i see it talked abt but not being able to really express it better than "ppl are always trying to humanize sayer, and sayer is trying to sayerize humans"

#essentially like. the move towards humanlike experiences is not nessesarily 'good' so much as it is 'neutral'. imo. #sayerposting #idk man lots of humans in that podded cast have human emotions and are causing great harm and pain. and also future. #so its not the emotions that make you Better its something else.

[simptasia]

also unless tuvok's ancestors are a part of the 10,000, this universe will never have a version of tuvok. they pre-killed tuvok :(

#10 thousand is such a low number holy shit #yes a species can survive on that #a gene pool can go as low as 500 people and still bounce back #(500 ish is as low as you can go without... TOO MUCH risk of severe medical problems) #but man its not ideal #one time humans went down to a genetic bottle neck of around 200 thousand people #and thats fine but it is the cause of the ''there are 7 people out there who look exactly like you'' thing #im saying that in the future of the aos universe the vulcan race is gonna lack genetic diversity #and i think it'd be best to encourage breeding with other species #i mean that happens anyways because humans are sick for that sweet vulcan pussy (gender neutral) #but i mean. more so. vulcans are gonna have to get over that racism problem they have #and. and this would upset a lot of people in-universe but: breed with romulans #look it sucks (for them) but there are billions of romulans with good ol' compatible vulcanoid genes #practically that can't be overlooked because of social issues #also breeding with romulans will ensure the vulcans don't lose their pointy ears #and obviously thats very important kjhfkjhfdskjh

[ladychandraofthemoone]

🤎THEM🤍

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

it’s been awhile since I’ve posted much(I blame you wacky internet) but I got so much in store but I’m starting with my hcs (which are technically canon in my sudrianverse au) gender-fluid Atlas (alternate design baby!) and Bi-gender Duke (his design being mainly be inspired by Glowynviator on Twitter and that’s it’s never to late to go on a journey of self-discovery and figuring out who you are 👋🏿✨👏🏿👍🏳️‍🌈Happy PRIDE YALL !!❤️🧡💛💚💙

#ttte #ttte atlas #duke the lost engine #ttte duke #ttte humanized #humanized #ttte humanisation #humanisation #humanization #they’re in a queerplatonic relationship the duke hc came from the awdry notes I’ve seen on here and I loved it and atlas is talking to rust #cause I can’t really see or read them as being in a romantic relationship I kinda saw them as being on the aro ace spectrum #but they totally have a close relationship from every series I watched them interacted cause in my au atlas was the second one to join #the msr so they’re around the same age as duke maybe a few years younger but like duke followed atlas grudge against Duncan and immediately #was the second to realize their behavior after atlas’s realization which I know fits theirpersonality but the fact they simultaneously #agreed cause my heart kinda eehhh and they’re been pranked so much and both seeone another in a good light #old peepaws(term neutral) who loved each other very much(platonically) I know this doesn’t seem very Duke but it was just too good to pass #atlas being gender-fluid kinda e came from the mine engine being different in every au and I thought that was cool and atlas is a gn name #my art #my art lol #my art sketch #my art <3 #my art stuff #my art hehe #Duke is surrounded by atlas’s gifts cause atlas gifts his friends precious rocks and gems Duke keeps them safe #Also I keep thinking of a kyle duke scenario where duke goes to him cause of Kyle’s relationship with stanley and running gag of folks #forgetting that kyle died near the end of ww1 he ain’t an 1000 year old god

[gayemeralds]

quick question about your Sonic Forces rewrite since im curious; what would be the phantom ruby's origins and how would inverted chaos energy work? :0

my idea is basically like this.....

the REAL phantom ruby is essentially an 8th chaos emerald. the master emerald helps keep the other seven emerald in harmony- essentially, the master emerald is the emerald of positive chaos. the phantom ruby, however, has is powers based in negative chaos energy. the two of them are necessary to actually keep the emeralds in balance, but the phantom ruby is so harmful to people not chaotic in nature that it gets lost through history and time and space after misuses gone wrong

eggman comes in contact with it after sonic generations but doesn't have much time to study it until later

he creates these fake copies of it using inverted neutral chaos energy to try to mimic negative chaos energy. it creates very powerfiul but unstable prototypes. effectively, it's very similar to the fake emeralds tails made in sa2 except with negative chaos energy.

that's what infinite has- he has a prototpe lodged in his chest. the unstable energies ahve also been altering his mind, unraveling him and his body. his mental and physical homestasis have been unbalanced and he's almost literally insane by the time he makes his first apperance, overcome with wrath and hate.

because the phantom ruby is made of chaos energy, sonic's able to use the energy better than any machine eggman can make or any other mobian he can swindle into being his science experiments. when sonic uses the energy against infinite during an encounter (basically, infinite came to torture him while he was captured but sonic fought back easily because infinite is physcially weak after exposure to the unstable energy and because sonic has... fought gods...) eggman immediately puts two and two together and decides to combine the real phantom ruby with sonic

and that has........ potentially disastrous results

#sonic's more of a host ot positive chaos energy than negative enrgy #so when he's flooded with negative energy oits *ninties sonic voice* no good! #also we ahve the issue of sonic jsut burrying every negative feeling ever so this is basically an excuse for him to go Fucking Hog Wild #sega official speaks #the thing is i want to emphasise that the chaos energy #being split between positive and negativ #isn't inherently also good vs evil #negative chaos energy is inherently neutral in morality just as positive chaos enregy is #positve feelings aren't inherenlty good and negative feelings aren't inherently bad #which is the lesson i want sonic to learn by the end of the rewrite #he's allowed to feel all his emotions #because feeling bad emotions won't automatically turn you into the very villains you've been fighting over the years #it's natural and human and terrifying certainly but it's all about how you channel those emotions #it's about what you do with them #and sonic knows this about OTHER people but with so much power very heavily tied to his emotions at his finger tips #as well as seeing what happens when people lose control of their emotions #when they sink into dispair or wrath or greed #sonic doens't want to chance ending up like them

[starscreaming666]

Looking back on Detroit become human in the wake of the ai craze is like. The most morbidly funny thing to me One of these days I have to write something on how the story of that game just gets HORRIFYING when you view it through a (more) modern lens. Man

#This definitely isn't an original thought but as someone who devoted way more time than I should've to dbh #I just wanna share what's going on in me brain #Like. About dbh #Horrible racism allegory aside. A corporation creating robots meant to replace human workforces while like. People still have to rely on #Employment to uh. Survive. Is genuinely a terrifying nightmare scenario and the thing that's funny to me is dbh just doesn't seem to know #This. Like at all #It doesn't even. Like I don't remember it taking a second to reckon with the way the working class is forced to interact with the world #And how introducing what we're seeing in 2023 (ai being used to replace artists in most cases) on a mass scale is just. Unfathomably evil #And the game doesn't examine like. The corporation behind all of this at all. Like Cyberlife (from what I remember. Which isn't much) is #Effectively PASSIVE in the game. It's just like. Neutral robots and good humans vs EVIL humans who uh. Don't want to be homeless. I guess #Like you're not gonna even. Say a word. About the company willing to let this happen. Like this game has hundreds of scenarios and not a #Single thing that examines how a corporation effectively sentencing people to death for money is fucked up #You don't even need to incriminate the androids for this one man. #I don't know :) like there's a lot wrong with the game but it gets so much worse looking at it now #My thoughts are so disjointed man I just have words floating in me head that bounce into each other sometimes #Sorry about the rant! I'm scared of making this an actual post so it's tags now #Dbh #I think that was my tag for Detroit posts. I just want to sort it :') #rant in tags #Hope everyone's having a good day! :3 I'm sitting here thinking about robots :)

[chiropterx]

Moral Alignment Test

You are 55.8% good, 26.7% lawful, making you neutral good.

People who are Neutral Good are guided by their conscience and typically act altruistically, with only secondary regard for whether their actions are lawful or in line with cultural expectations or traditions. Neutral Good individuals have no problems with what is lawful as such, and nor are they rebels by nature, but they believe in furthering kindness and good deeds through whatever means seem necessary to them. If fostering good means supporting an organized society, then that is what must be done. If good can only come about through the overthrow of the existing social order, then so be it. For many who are Neutral Good, insistence on either lawfulness or rebellion is seen as detriments to or distractions from the greater goal of promoting true kindness in the world.

#🦇 || dashboard games #🦇 || headcanons #So Kirk is the complete opposite to Roman #Roman just barely eked into Neutral but was still a nasty bastard #Kirk on the other hand was just short of Lawful #He's very much about researching for cures and dedicating himself to benevolent pursuits but he's not exactly the most law-abiding citizen #Hence injecting himself with bat serum #Won't experiment on other people but will experiment on himself #If he has to do a few questionable deeds to accomplish his goal he will #Man just wants to cure deafness and other conditions afflicting humanity #Man-Bat is more neutral I think #Very much an animal so not really good or evil

[unproduciblesmackdown]

third times the charm re: distilling a [winston billions autistic character] jumping off point re: like, applications of individual responsibility Bootstraps Narrative attitude just in general when it comes to some people being Made more vulnerable than others, and the way that these differences are Deserved, the solution to someone suffering for it is for them to personally choose to better themself to thusly earn more, and for, conveniently, Punishment to be a neutral conduit of moral improvement, should you be so deserving as to accept it

if someone interprets an autistic person as offputting & reacts to this with disdain b/c of an imagined correlating Undeserving Interiority within that person, that’s objective & correct, & however they punish that person is as well. autistic people should have to Do The Work of making up for their previous failure to simply Learn how to act correctly, since allistic people definitely underwent ABA & now think of themselves as choosing to act that way rather than just Naturally Being Normal (wherein also any conscious effort is just ascribed to further personal positive qualities of theirs, the Kindness / Generosity / Thoughtfulness etc etc in striking up small talk or whatever, while ascribing thoughtlessness / disrespect to nd behavior), and in the meantime a) the best an autistic person can hope for, if, like a properly humble poor person, they deserve the pity, is that equivalent of a windfall of the charity some better off individual can Choose to afford them, e.g. like if an autistic employee happens to have some manager or someone who can & does look out for them / tries to insulate them from nonsense....and at the heart of the matter, the double empathy problem Is deserved, the solution to an autistic person being disliked is either that they shouldn’t be here at all, or that if they can endure existing somewhere that’s actually beyond what they can manage to Earn, they deserve the punishment of being nobly treated “the same,” i.e., oh if Anyone was acting like this i’d be an asshole to them, which is why people don’t even need to Know someone’s autistic to react to the reality of their being autistic, the person in question doesn’t even need to know it about themself....and ultimately it’s worse to Not try to yourself punish, or allow the punishment of, this weirdo grating cringe loser, b/c only the cleansing nature of that punishment will let them personally improve & start acting better & Deserving better, otherwise you’re just enabling them to keep being annoying at other people & those other ppl’s annoyance is Also blood on your hands (then it’s time to turn around & let people even Higher Up on the social hierarchy do whatever they want / bend over backwards to interpret & explain & justify everything they do in the most positive lights & blame other people for being hurt by them) 

and like, the handy flexibility re: what’s Deserved when, say, how other characters look at a character like ben kim. he’s Too Nice, and that can mean that he deserves better, or it can mean that that’s a bleeding heart doormat loser trait that deserves the disdainful punishment it might get. and even if you Do think he deserves better? the reason he isn’t Already getting that better treatment must be due to personal failure anyways: he Is being too much of a loser &/or how he’ll only get better if he Steps Up & Acts more like a winner, for god’s sake, do the elevator dance stuff, that’s not only reasonable but obvious, cmon. tuk’s weird Confidence Training masterclass where it’s like, softhearted ben will be like “sorry :/ nothing anyone can do though” but tuk can’t go “hey, can you not be an asshole to me” and expect to get anywhere if he’s still being his too uncertain self, it’s on Him to start acting out the extrinsic behaviors of a winner and Then other people will totally start respecting him, is how this works lol....that it’s cringe for winston to Say he’s good at what he does & is valuable, b/c umm if you were Really valuable then the Natural recognition of that & corresponding positive treatment would Of Course have already manifested, and since it hasn’t, he isn’t Really deserving, and since he’s claiming to be deserving, that’s also proof he’s out of line being aggressive & arrogant like that. that it’s Also like, cringe & even crass of him to mention like, yeah i’m hoping to get paid here lol, again you’ll Of Course be paid as much as you want if you Deserve it, but if you deserve it you’ll actually mostly talk about being here and wanting to Win at it for cooler reasons, b/c ppl who are winning / more powerful than you in Whatever realm have those benefits that have just spontaneously & naturally been afforded to them b/c they deserve them more On Merit, and meritous people Are better than those beneath them and thus Will seem epic. and in the same way that ben kim seeming Too Nice can be handily interpreted as a “positive” (without truly challenging any negative assessment) or a negative, it’s like, oh winston’s Also undeserving b/c of the fact his outfit was uniquely significantly cheaper on the burn rate rundown, it’s actually Cooler to have your undershirt cost a thousand bucks, it’s costlier b/c it’s better, you buy the better clothes b/c you Deservingly have the money and thus also have the Deserving tastes to want the pricier shit. yet it’s like, cue a post of yore mentioning like analysis of agatha christie’s writing where like, oh the nouveau riche’s personal fashion & decor choices are always a bit too indulgent & overdone, vs. the refined elegant restraint of those with True Class(tm), when really any trend where Not going as ham with adornment/decoration was “better” / a signifier of properly noble Old Money was a reaction to flashier stylings Becoming more common / attainable for the less established rich / Less rich, period....the way that an identity that is defined by / requires Othering people will always have to react Against what everyone else is doing so long as that association is relevant in the cultural consciousness. ugh women do that, so it’d be too Effeminate of men, so men shouldn’t Want to do it anyways b/c they’re too inherently epic in the ways that make them better than women already, & if they Do, it’s some artificial corruption....anyways, it’s that if someone Undeserving were to indulge in pricey shit, that’d be a veneer to compensate for the insecurity of how they don’t Truly Deserve fancy shit (which wouldn’t look like deliberate flashiness anyways, of course. simply The Taste) but if they were to rather be sticking to too pedestrian / inexpensive shit, that’s Also about the insecurity of how they don’t Truly Deserve fancy shit / indication that they lack the Taste to even Know how to want better, and the best they could do is an identifiably lesser mere Imitation of what better ppl choose for themselves

meanwhile shoutout to how, of course, if winston is being treated badly on an individual interpersonal basis, that’s exactly in line with All Of This lol. he deserves it, if he deserves better He has to make the change, and in the meantime since that Bootstraps Narrative is justification for things being the way they already are, conveniently anyone else can keep getting whatever they get out of another person being so diminished as to not Deserve to be regarded as & treated as a person in the way that they do....autistic employees “making up for” their being autistic by working harder, Anyone working harder (ben kim) b/c surely that’s the only way to get a raise or promoted or not fired & if you don’t jump into the ring of like compensation negotiation & win (ben kim) then you don’t deserve the raise, conveniently....you Do have to walk away & Prove that you can do better, taylor Should Have Had To Do All This actually, even though probably mafee wouldn’t Really argue that directly, wild how whatever you say that’s a Negative about winston / sabotages any effort of his must, flexibly, be true & fine....if we thought Some People didn’t inherently deserve the increased vulnerability to harm in various manifestations, then that’d have enough reverberations that wouldn’t be contained to “maybe stop being like this to your coworker,” and in the meantime we can all just Tell that winston sucks & thus he brings it upon himself & the Rewards that people get for what they’re actually bringing upon him >>>> winston having a more tolerable time, not to mention that actually it’ll Help him in the end if, to make the punishment stop, he finally decides to deserve Better by improving himself, bootstraps time, [become nondisabled] style

oh and addendum too about like [any begrudging acknowledgment that winston perhaps Does have value tied to an especial individual talent] wherein it can be like ugh This asshole got in on a Technicality, he can crank out this coding or whatever but that’s Mechanical rather than something any of us need to attribute to an Inherently Deserving Human Interiority and like be impressed with or admire or respect or some shit like that, he’s basically cheated to get be here & so long as he isn’t forced out we can at least Use him. feel free though to be a complete asshole to him for real

#another blogger moment of just saying some shit. probably other specific examples i meant to bring up but didn't #i mean it's the Entire intrinsic / extrinsic thing lmao. operating under a premise that there Is an objective hierarchy of Intrinsic Worth #(or characters are; mostly; but if it wasn't a common irl assumption / ideology too then idk uh [encompassing gesture]) #and wherein it's like. questions of ''do you actually think Anyone would deserve [xyz] treatment even if they supposedly were thee worst'' #and ''do you think [xyz] should be done to people b/c the Suffering therein is supposedly good for them actually'' #like regardless of anything winston does (which like...is mostly withering & coding in the corner...what) it's like #if it's so intolerable then fire him? is it actually chill for rian's dynamic w/him to be somewhere around [his bully] or [abusive friend] #like At All much less even if she's the most awesome winning sympathetic person in the world & he's some asshole who sucks at everything #and even perhaps if she's getting anything out of it. even perhaps if you also dislike winston / think he Could & Should be different.... #imagine wendy brings the attempts at systematic aba for real l o l (wretched) (she also brings it organically anyways) #winston billions #and whatever all's going on here....who knows. a blogger saying some things. your guess is as good as mine #tfw ppl think ppl are just desperate to Read Into the least shit abt themselves & Self Dx As Autistic For Clout / how ohhh disabled ppl need #Special Treatment out of Sympathy/Pity / ohhh disabled ppl are actually all asking too much of us all & using Excuses.... #certainly easier to Not actually fundamentally question &/or alter your understanding of the concept of disability #like no i will Not conceive of the fact that making eye contact during a convo is not a universal human behavior hinging on basic respect #to look away isn't neutral or to help someone actually listen to you better. e.g. being autistic Has to be An Excuse(tm) #adhd would be Solved by me if only they all cared as much as i do where Choosing To Remember = Remembering. excuses excuses #winston as a Totally Objectively offputting asshole doesn't deserve basic respect as a person; nor as a colleague / coworker / employee... #he definitely deserves the punishment to Specifically Not have casual acquaintanceships; friends; lovers; partners; family is saddled w/him

[kazoologist]

now listen i know i really need to spend more time with durkheim before im any good at actually talking about the man. but as ive inched ever closer and closer towards more silly sociology stuff and reading ive really come to appreciate how totally value-neutral all the stuff i've ever read on collective effervescence was.

#well ok value neutral might be imprecise and not optimal wording on my part #kazoo noises #the captain goes down with his scholarship #like okay. im a person who finds ritual and togetherness very interesting and lowkey a really fun part of being alive. right #so like my friend who was explaining this to me years ago used the examples of collective effervescence as 1) watching a sports game/match #together #or watching a public execution #like idk i know im a sap so i tend to probably lean towards the more happy side of things but that allowance of both things most people #regard as good and like. moral i guess. but also understand that like. public executions via vigilante justice are commonplace in us histor #idk i just really like that so much is allowed to be contained in a single thing being studied. i like that everyone ive ever met #whos into sociology and social science and shit is always so kind and fond of being alive even though theyre full of rage and spend their #lives studying some of the things that make being alive and people so so so difficult #like. every sociology prof ive ever spoken too has just been. so kind. so very full of love. just endlessly. like it costs them nothing to #give so much to the world around them. but they spend their life studying just. some of the worst outcomes you can have. its wild. #i should probably read and see if theres a way they can do that. i burn out emotionally way too fast for someone in library science. #anyway. this is my rant as i do my readings for class. #idk man im thinking about human elements and shit today

[alienhoarder]

Maybe I'm just tired but the fact that me specifically being born is a miracle, that I am the result of thousands of specific events, that I can the universe looking and observing itself, it really makes me feel things. The inherent good of humanity and the universe is getting to me.

#yeah i know that really the universe and humanity on a base level are neutral but. #there is so much good in the world #and i love it so much #it can be so small but it's still so beautiful to me #anyway.