If you think that you are always right remember you could actually be stupid and not know it

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I know I'm an idiot and I know everyone else is as well, in their own way. So when I call people idiots, I do it as a fellow idiot gently reminding them they are in fact idiots.
They generally disagree.
- Heh, get a load of this idiot.
- Same, except they don't just disagree, they are extremely pissed. For whatever reason idiots tend to assume superior status to me in particular.

Do you know how long it took me to figure out I'm stupid? What am I, stupid?
Oh, wait...

I am of different opinion that these folks know they are wrong, but are too egotistic to admit it.
I was taught at an early age to accept mistakes, learn from it and move on. Now I have grown older, I realised that not many people know this, and society also stigmatises someone making mistakes. I think some people refuse to admit to be wrong because either they are too egotistic to accept and learn, or doubling down assertively on the wrong belief as a defensive mechanism from potential public humiliation.

That’s true, but there’s usually quite a lot of pain when you’re dying.
- Not usually, for many individuals, death is a gentle, peaceful and pain-free event.
  
  That’s uplifting. They say ”for many”, which makes me think that it’s not the majority case though.

When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful & difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.
Philippe Geluck

So you're telling me that I have the psychic power to inflict unending agony upon others by just being myself? I'm going to have such fun with this!

This should not be upvoted by the Lemmy echo chamber...:)
- Most painful comment so far

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