# People **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people/765296 "2016-09-07T19:43:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people/765296/201 "2016-09-16T21:52:42Z")
> [@Machinaforce](#): > > Because humans can be controlled, By whom? Are you speaking as subject or object here? > [@](#): > > getting by isn’t enough. Again, as already stated, it demonstrably is for most people. It’s also true for yourself in regards to non-personal domains. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people/765296/202 "2016-09-16T23:07:19Z")
> [@Machinaforce](#): > > Whether you do or don’t you still reinforce my point. There’s no way to tell what your point is. That is your point. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people/765296/203 "2016-09-16T23:30:58Z")
> [@Machinaforce](#): > > No, that is incorrect You say this, but I don’t trust humans to tell the truth - I am still correct. ---
**Author:** ![PrimalEnvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/85f322/32.png) [@PrimalEnvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PrimalEnvy)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people/765296/204 "2016-09-17T00:25:47Z")
> [@Machinaforce](#): > > There isn’t a flaw. Ultimately every human interaction is based on the belief that the other person is telling the truth. You cannot verify they are all the time so you take it on faith, and faith is illogical. What else should we do, then? You say we can’t believe anything someone else says to be true, because it’s illogical. Is believing everything they say is false any more logical? How can we interpret what others say without illogical faith? ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people/765296/205 "2016-09-17T00:41:48Z")
> [@PrimalEnvy](#): > > Is believing everything they say is false any more logical? Well said. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people/765296/206 "2016-09-17T01:36:32Z")
> [@ozaline](#): > > When the robots replace every truck, and cab driver because they are more cost efficient, safer and environmentally friendly than human drivers we will see a major shift in the economy… it may be a painful transition, but after it’s done there will be a lot more time for poetry. There’s an idea that robot replacing menial jobs is OK because robots can’t replace more intellectual or artistic pursuits. This is wrong. Someday AIs will be better than humans not only at poetry but all art. At some point machines will start making art only other machines can appreciate. We’ll be like chimpanzees trying to understand human art. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people/765296/207 "2016-09-17T15:28:16Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > It’s a short step from thinking of them as mere NPCs to deciding it’s OK to jump in line in front of them, cut them off while driving, steal from them, beat them, and kill them as I choose. Damn. _Now_ you tell me. > [@](#): > > I personally am smarter, wealthier, stronger, and when necessary more ruthless than about 95% of Americans. I have fought and killed and watched men die, on my side and (more) on the enemy’s. I do pretty well under the current system, despite being well below the 1% and far, far below the 0.1%. I recognize though that in a Hobbesian world full of people like you have learned to be, I’d do far worse than that. > > As skew as the distribution of wealth, safety, and life satisfaction is in America today, under a widely sociopathic society it’d be vastly more so. One would be either a tycoon with a private army or one would be a peon at risk of random death every day for any reason or no reason. This is what they’ve found out about mafioso, that the very top lead relatively normal lives, but it was a bitch to be one of the peons. I’m with you guessing that the OP is in (his/her) teens. When my son was three or so, he discovered the shock value of saying potty words. Of course, he was only three so that was all he had to say. One thinks that the OP has discovered the shock value of saying empathy is bad. > [@Trinopus](#): > > If all you’ve got is “Nuh-uh!” then you aren’t worth debating. Yes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people/765296.md?page=10)