Venting Living Where Decency Is a Liability

[Afterglow]

I keep trying to understand when it became normal to treat people like shit. Everywhere, I'm spoken to like I'm less than human, like something to be ordered, corrected, humiliated.

Kindness is seen as weakness, patience as incompetence. There's always someone louder, crueler, and more eager to remind you of where you stand.

I used to think effort mattered. That showing up on time, doing what was asked, trying to make things easier for others would count for something. Instead, it feels like the world rewards those who make the lives of others worse and punishes anyone who tries to make the world better. People talk at me, not to me. They don't see a person, just an inconvenience that didn't move fast enough, didn't smile correctly, didn't take the abuse quietly enough.

What I don't understand is why cruelty has become so casual. As if it costs nothing. As if throwing someone else's dignity away is just another part of life, another way to feel important for a moment. What do you gain from it? A brief sense of control? A laugh that fades before the damage does?


Society seems to grind away the compassion that was core of humanity. We're taught to compete instead of care, to harden instead of heal.

Somewhere along the way, empathy became optional, and when that happened, something human went missing.

I'm tired of living in a world where being decent feels like a liability. Tired of wondering how much of myself I'm expected to erase just to survive another day.

I don't know when I stopped feeling like I belonged here. I only know that I did.

 

[tonicer]

Where do you live? I live in a small German town and most natives here are nice and helpful people.

 

[devils~advocate]

We live in a time period where things such as greed, ambition, confidence, etc are desired and rewarded.
Ethics, morality, empathy, etc are looked down on or even considered a weakness.
This is all unfortunate.
Ive seen in my line of work, people rewarded for being bending truths, appearing fake motivated, greedy......and others punished for not being these things.
These people then having a hard time in life in trying to pick up the pieces and go on. Some of them even having children.

Its a horrible world system run by equally horrible peoples. We allow it but really have no choice since our lives are dependent on the system.

 

[Codename_Joryu]

Compassion and kindness are dying virtues in a world ruled by greed and lust for power. People won't appreciate your acts of empathy, they'll just mark you as an easy target to exploit. You're doing good at work and never complain? They'll just assign you more work and get mad if you underperform. You helped someone purely out of kindness for nothing in return? They'll think "haha, what a fucking idiot, he let himself be used so easily". You show patience and respect for someone you love? They'll just take it as a confirmation that they can hurt your feelings without any consequences.

Genuinely fuck most people, especially with what's happening right now with the whole Epstein leaks I'm pretty much convinced that the only way we could ever rebuild as a society is if we went back to throwing rocks at dodos.