So no one told you life was gonna be this way. Your job’s a joke, you’re broke, your love life’s D-O-A. It’s like you’re always stuck in second gear, or when it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month, or even your year.
There are some who make a case for face to face interaction, so I’m guessing that online interaction with others isn’t enough.
But that still doesn’t really answer the question as to why that data claims negative effects for no friends. It also doesn’t answer if it really is the no friends that causes those risks or societal pressure to fit in.
Seems like there reason people keep others around is to do stuff for them. Kind of like a maid or a butler. I’m not really buying the emotional aspect of it as that might just be an effect of social pressure to have friends to avoid seeming like an outcast, as well as the promise that friends bring happiness.
I wouldn’t call such beings self deluded or otherwise. Maybe they know something we don’t. Seems like a boon really to cooperate and interact with others but not requiring to have close bonds. The close bonds aspect seems like more of a weakness then a strength.
This topic, as presented, appears to have been better suited to IMHO than to Great Debates.
For an actual debate, one would expect to see references to information or evidence provided by psychologists, sociologists, or even philosophers. This is more of an IMHO poll thread.
However, since this thread’s odd placement and lack of initial substance have already resulted in too many dismissive challenges with little to no discussion, rather than moving it to IMHO, I am closing it.
