• riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    the more i learn about humans the more one thing becomes clear to me: humans are incredibly good at adapting to new environments and accepting them as their new normal.

    we are so incredibly shaped by our environments, i doubt there is much essential about people other than maybe a few inherent tendencies. that doesnt mean tho that people dont aquire attributes during their lives that become basically impossible to change. what has been unleashed once might be impossible to lock away ever again.

    but whether inherent or not doesnt matter, because imo we should always let people be the way they wanna be and support them, unless they are being harmful (by a libertairian understnading), which is when we should try to help them or at least protect ourselves from them.

    • Nat (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, I sometimes wonder what if [something] went differently in my life when I was younger, but I realize that future “me” is a different person. Maybe I would’ve preferred to have been them, maybe not, but I’m not them and I don’t want to be them now.