Beretta92FSLady
Regular Member
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Why don't you give us a formal paper, backed by psychological study and anthropological citation, qualifying your claims that, and I do surely quote you, "Most people need to be controlled...".
Pessimism has little to nothing to do with fact and scientific discovery. I am pessimistic, no doubt, but I refuse to cloud my education, experiences, and studies with an emotional condition or state of being.
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Ahh, an appeal to 'authority'. How cute. Don't get me wrong, I do read, a lot, but not for the purposes of appealing to authority.
Most be do need to be controlled. They are to 'willfully', or incapable enough to do anything other than be told what to think. It is present on both sides of the political spectrum; even tea party types (who fall within the political spectrum).
What, Optimism? Pessimism is somehow bad, worse, or the opposite of Optimism? Give it a break. There is some thing rather Pessimistic about a scientific fact, such as the Sun will eventually run out of energy, expand then implode in on itself, and all life on Earth, if there is life on Earth when such a thing occurs, will cease to exist. Scientific findings seem to lean to a rather pessimistic future, a fleeting moment in time that will give way to the chaos of all things. Neither pessimism, not optimism have any more or less value than the other, nor are they necessarily the opposite of the other.