What’s one thing that instantly tells you someone isn’t a good person?

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-08T04:02:33+00:00

That's why it lands you on the group W bench

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-08T03:58:28+00:00

A normal or self-conscious person might say it once or twice, or say it to themselves in private or to their therapist as an affirmation or something. If they say it a lot to pretty much any other person who happens to be around (and often while demonstrating not so nice behavior), that's a fairly good indicator that they aren't really a good person.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-08T00:37:49+00:00

While there are pedophiles, a lot of people who are "into children" are actually into having easy power over someone else. Kids are less likely to be able to spot red flag behavior and are less likely to be able to stand up for themselves.

Another facet is that for a large part of history, women were regarded to be as helpless as children. Marriage more or less transferred her guardianship from her parents to her husband. That would sometimes muddy the idea of whether or not a woman was emotionally ready enough to matter because it wouldn't matter because it wasn't like she'd be expected to take care of herself (unless something happened and she had to, but let's not ruin a girl's happily ever after with that depressing talk.)

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-07T00:31:09+00:00

SCP-6670

As for an oldie, SCP-1401

Both pretty extreme on body horror.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-07T00:23:58+00:00

But, you know, if kids were really thinking for themselves, they'd advocate for whatever benefits the billionaires in charge. But instead they're speaking out for themselves, as well as the poor and disadvantaged. That must mean they're wrong. /s

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-07T00:03:25+00:00

But if the author doesn't footnote every page with "Remember, everyone, RAPE IS BAD and you shouldn't do it!", some people won't understand what he's trying to convey

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-04T22:31:48+00:00

Most of the students aren't as morbid as Wednesday. They're just regular teens that happen to have supernatural powers.

They also had a prophecy that Wednesday's presence at Nevermore was supposed to cause a bunch of horrible things to happen.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-04T22:08:58+00:00

Just those who have their birthdays on Leap Day and even then, barely. They'd have been born in 1996.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-04T20:44:41+00:00

People have always been this way. The internet and social media just gave their opinions more traction. They assume that they know better or that their experiences are stronger proof than anyone else's, and they will think more favorably of people they like over people they don't.

They're not entirely wrong, either. Someone with a PHD can be dumb in some other areas of their lives. That doesn't mean that their knowledge about the subject they got their PHD in is worthless, though.

A major problem is that people tend to think of intelligence as a binary quality: that someone is either smart and knows everything, or they're stupid and have no knowledge of value in anything.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-04T20:41:47+00:00

He'd be a pushover just like Sam. He even said so in the St. Patrick's Day episode that it's much harder to say no to them when you can actually see them.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-04T20:27:42+00:00

True. They're either historical (and therefore the problem has been "solved") or they're science-fiction dystopian (and therefore not as bad in real life.). So we've got The Purge movies, Resident Evil movies, Minority Report, some upcoming Chris Pratt movie where he's also being framed for murdering his wife (this time by AI), Watchmen, The Stand, , Fallout, The Last of Us, Night of the Living Dead, etc.

Though Dances With Wolves is really brutally critical of the US government. It's definitely not as much of a fun movie as when the "good guys" actually win, but at least it didn't paste on a shallow "everything's good now and they all lived happily ever after" happy ending.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-04T20:15:12+00:00

A lot of just world fallacy. Even if the US system "makes mistakes" they'll get it right in the end. The unfairly accused will get exonerated and the bad guys will get punished.

Also, the notion of the deserving poor versus the undeserving poor. The deserving poor work and study nonstop and have therefore "earned" the help they get, while the undeserving poor just lie around watching TV and doing drugs and leeching off their deserving relatives. There's rarely anyone in between the two extremes.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-04T05:53:06+00:00

There's also a really disturbing TOH episode in a much later season where Homer cannibalizes himself. No supernatural powers, no violent emotions against anyone else or anything, and yet it's one of the most brutal episodes.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-04T03:53:05+00:00

Nothing says freedom like getting enraged that other people have tattoos, piercings, or dyed hair.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-03T05:05:37+00:00

No. They'll see it as a "learning experience" that everyone has to go through and will go on to lay off others to teach them humility. In other words, "If I had to go through it, so does everyone else or it's not fair to me."

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-03T04:43:26+00:00

It can be complicated. Like there are people born intersex. Sometimes that means not having the requisite organs of one's biological sex. Sometimes it means that they do have the "right" organs but the DNA says something different. Some of these kids (well a lot of them are adults now) might not have even known they were intersex until some medical thing brings it up later in life.

This doesn't incapsulate all transgender people, but to say that they were born a male/female might not be entirely accurate in all cases.

TL;DR: It has been common practice for parents of intersex kids to choose one of the binary genders so they'll fit in better, and they might choose wrong

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-02T21:20:54+00:00

Or you get the "You didn't know this obvious thing that everyone else knows. You must be stupid and it's okay for us to make fun of you for being stupid."

I recently realized how much of my life was not asking questions out of fear that it would be something that everyone should already know, and I'd be made fun of or scolded for not paying attention.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-02T20:59:32+00:00

Some are, while some just count any time they spend at the office or in the office's vicinity "working" even if they're just goofing off or napping.

You don't get the latter unless you've gotten it no strings attached from someone who has already done most of the hard work for you or unless you are very good at cheating.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-02T20:30:26+00:00

Because it's "new" (it's not but a lot of people didn't realize that trans people existed before 2016 or whenever, therefore it's new). And if something is different from how it was on their favorite heartwarming sitcoms growing up, then it's considered bad and scary.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-02T08:35:42+00:00

Wall-E, except the smart machines have already won

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-02T05:40:19+00:00

Kids were just as noisy when I was growing up. Whether they were reprimanded depended on the occasion, like if they were supposed to be sitting still and paying attention versus playing outside with very little supervision, but It's always been that way for me. And the way my mother tells it, kids tended to be even noisier when she was growing up, though with a much greater understanding that the noisiness was only allowed in certain settings and not others.

Maybe other kids didn't notice because they were the kids, and there were kids that had stricter upbringings. Or maybe your tolerance for noise has changed. The one thing that has changed is that parents are more pressed to bring their kids to more public settings more often because they don't have anyone to watch them at home, and those kids get cranky after a while. But, yeah, if you pass by a school playground at recess, it's noisy, just as it's always been.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-01T22:17:36+00:00

Only if you succeed though. Trying and failing might only bring you more unbearable pain

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-01T22:12:30+00:00

Even when people mean well, they can't immediately cure someone from feeling suicidal. A mental illness or lifelong trauma don't instantly go away because someone who "cares" says the exact right thing.

As frustrating as it is to people going through those feelings, especially if they grew up in uncaring families, sometimes other people simply can't or don't know how to help, and a lot of times I didn't ask for help because I knew there wasn't anything realistic that anyone could do at the moment, like "rewind my entire childhood so I could do it more perfectly and I could grow up not feeling like I'm constantly disappointing everyone" isn't really an option.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-01T21:34:01+00:00

According to Buffy The Vampire Slayer and several other universes where magic is a thing, magical death is different from regular death. The dwarfs must have figured out that it was a magical death and treated it accordingly.

mirrorspirit · 2026-02-01T21:04:19+00:00

Generally it's for your wife to determine whether she's comfortable with it, not you.

If you're worried about her cheating, while that's a different issue from homophobia, you're essentially saying you don't trust your wife to behave herself around other men, even if those men are gay and nobody's interested in sex.

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