Things in life are rarely ever so simplistic as to be binary.
To the extent that you try, you will succeed… eventually, with enough effort and perhaps some luck. To the extent that you choose not to, then like cancer killing (even ultimately harming itself), the results of your inability to control yourself will have downstream consequences. Some might call it karma but whatever it’s called, yeah, shit that goes around comes around (along with other, different shit, or maybe sometimes it doesn’t for whatever odd reason? This principle isn’t so much “true” or “false” as a tendency that trends towards happening more often than not).
Though others have their journeys as well - and some are currently in a phase where they are not even trying. THAT’S the difference between a mere idiot (it takes one to know one, so hello there fellow idiot!) vs. someone who is recalcitrant. The difference lies in the trying.
That difference makes ALL the difference in the world. Like what is the distinction between sex with a partner vs. rape, if not consent? Likewise, killing someone who is begging for a terminal ending vs. someone who does not want it - again, consent? And toxicity in a conversation similarly turns upon consent of all parties involved. We ignore that at our peril - e.g. even if Lemmy did not provide a block button, people could simply leave the platform and never come back, essentially choosing the bear rather than the men here.
Please keep trying? If you do, then regardless of whether you ever reach your “goal” or not, you will improve either way - the act of trying, coupled with many chances, helps ensure that the likelihood of such is increased, at the very least, and anyway the pure act of trying is often enough to make us better, compared to if we did not.
not unkind, but you assume I don’t try.
I call myself an idiot because I am part of the human race, and that implies a certain… inability to change, even knowing better.
Cancer kills. Whether we like it or not, it does.
Fwiw I hoped that you did try.:-)
Things in life are rarely ever so simplistic as to be binary.
To the extent that you try, you will succeed… eventually, with enough effort and perhaps some luck. To the extent that you choose not to, then like cancer killing (even ultimately harming itself), the results of your inability to control yourself will have downstream consequences. Some might call it karma but whatever it’s called, yeah, shit that goes around comes around (along with other, different shit, or maybe sometimes it doesn’t for whatever odd reason? This principle isn’t so much “true” or “false” as a tendency that trends towards happening more often than not).
Though others have their journeys as well - and some are currently in a phase where they are not even trying. THAT’S the difference between a mere idiot (it takes one to know one, so hello there fellow idiot!) vs. someone who is recalcitrant. The difference lies in the trying.
That difference makes ALL the difference in the world. Like what is the distinction between sex with a partner vs. rape, if not consent? Likewise, killing someone who is begging for a terminal ending vs. someone who does not want it - again, consent? And toxicity in a conversation similarly turns upon consent of all parties involved. We ignore that at our peril - e.g. even if Lemmy did not provide a block button, people could simply leave the platform and never come back, essentially choosing the bear rather than the men here.
Please keep trying? If you do, then regardless of whether you ever reach your “goal” or not, you will improve either way - the act of trying, coupled with many chances, helps ensure that the likelihood of such is increased, at the very least, and anyway the pure act of trying is often enough to make us better, compared to if we did not.