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24 ⚜ Anonymous Text / CW: abuse mentions

Whether a man is a criminal or a hero is a matter of perspective.

But if you don't want to play your role anymore, and are removed from your motivation for being who you are, what do you do? Do you seek redemption and rehabilitation and transform as an individual, or do you repeat negative behavior? How much do you believe people change only because they are imPorted? In short, do you believe people can change?

If I had anybody willing to discuss this in private with me, I assure you, I'd not be raising the issue publically.

Thank you in advance.

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Speaking as an expert on changing, of course people can change. Sometimes it's due to extenuating circumstances, sometimes it's due to a new event in life, sometimes it's due to meeting the right person.

Anyone who's all "oh blah blah blah so and so NEVER CHANGES" is just stupid and wrong.

You believe that things are constantly moving forward. Yes, well, I can assure you that people who never change are perfectly real. Behavior can relapse and cycle. You can attempt to save a man but the risk is there he will always let you down.

And the risk is also there that he won't let you down. I'm buds with some people who they say can never change and they're proof that just because everyone thinks you're something, you don't have to stay something.

Oh, you've got friends? How good for you! What about them has been good for you, exactly?

[It's text but the anger is there.]

Do you mean what about having friends has been good? Well the answer to that is just having friends to begin with. They're wonderful to talk to and be around.

I see. Then they input your brain with ideas and that produces a behavioral response. Fascinating.

I'm sure someone a bit more clinical would call it dopamine and chemicals and all that. But personally? I like having friends just because I like people. Being alone's rubbish.

So I've figured.

[Is he speaking from the doctor's perspective? MAYBE. Maybe not. JUST DON'T ASK HIM TO BE FRIENDS.]

Anyway, you've got a problem in your proposition. Negative behavior doesn't really mean anything! With a few exceptions, what someone might view as negative, someone else might view as positive. It's the good and evil thing all over again.

Negative has another meaning as a term used to describe behavior, but as it happens I agree. Our morals are individualistic. Though not when it comes to mass opinion, I suppose.

Depends on whose mass opinion. The one of the humans here?

I suppose so, akthough I was referring to the local society in the first instance.

What, Heropa? Why do you care what Heropa thinks, it's Floridians. They're the most confusing type of humans to begin with.

So they are, but I was thinking a bit wider than Florida. Human behavior does have patterns, after all.

Everything's got patterns. Patterns are part of life, after all, it's nature showing off for us.

Patterns, then. Patterns of behaviour. If all patterns are nature, is the entire spectrum of human behaviour also down to nature? If so, then I fail to see how anyone can blame anybody for anything.

Dunno. Sometimes people have patterns of breaking patterns. Add in paradoxes like that and things get infinitely more complicated.

And fascinating. Which is a crime around here, apparently.

What, paradoxes? No they aren't. And being fascinating isn't a crime either.

If you say so. Though you might want to remind people of that.

I'll make a network post. FASCINATING PEOPLE COME BOTHER ME HERE or something like that.

Why don't you? It would be interesting to see who responds, if nothing else.

Give me a bit. I'll have to come up with ideas for what the fascinating people and I'll do after they respond. Apparently I'm rubbish at things like "lying" and "censuses" so I'll need time to prep.

That's perfectly fine. Take all the time you need.

By the way, if you don't respond to the fascinating survey, I'll be very cross.

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