No one wakes up in the morning and thinks to themselves, today I'm going to act against my own best interests in a way that will potentially lead to my death and the deaths of many other people.
( a beat. )
Maybe the second part, some people are cunts. But people don't—they aren't just stupid, they have reasons. Everyone has a reason for what they do, even if it's wrong, or it doesn't seem to make any sense. The important part is understanding. What people care about. What drives them. Yes, telling a story is useful, but knowing stories is better. It's more important. It's necessary to anything on a larger scale, because no one has the fucking right to just walk in and not even examine who people are and decide that they know best for them and that they're just stupid if they don't understand it. We owe understanding to anyone we want to help, or it's not different.
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Date: 2018-11-23 11:16 am (UTC)( a beat. )
Maybe the second part, some people are cunts. But people don't—they aren't just stupid, they have reasons. Everyone has a reason for what they do, even if it's wrong, or it doesn't seem to make any sense. The important part is understanding. What people care about. What drives them. Yes, telling a story is useful, but knowing stories is better. It's more important. It's necessary to anything on a larger scale, because no one has the fucking right to just walk in and not even examine who people are and decide that they know best for them and that they're just stupid if they don't understand it. We owe understanding to anyone we want to help, or it's not different.