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if you had to turn up one knob on society, you'd pick the one that increases the amount people feel responsible for other people's suffering, or increases the amount people feel responsible for their own suffering

Responsible for others
44.6%
Responsible for their own
55.4%

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Dr. Poop Muscles, PhD

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which of these two groups of people do you think would be more likely to choose to clean up litter on a beach when they find it? which do you think would be more likely to do the littering in the first place?

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Those responsible for their own suffering? If they don't like the litter they should pick it up

7:33 AM · Aug 12, 2020

Dr. Poop Muscles, PhD

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Evidently I ask very poor questions.

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But the litter doesn't make ME suffer, so why pick it up?

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Ah but if they felt responsible for others suffering would they have littered in the first place

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