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[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 82 points 3 days ago

Middle school is, was, and will be full of dicks. How 1/2 of all middle schoolers turn into decent people, I don’t know.

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 60 points 3 days ago

Lmfao you think 1/2 of everyone is decent? How optimistic of you

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago

Half feels right. The moral median is forever moving up. I can trust most people in a room to avoid murdering, robbing, raping, or engaging in political conversation with me, so that’s my rationale.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 3 days ago

Do not conflate fear of punishment with morality. Most people suck, but are at least capable of a very basic level of cost-benefit analysis.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

That's a big ask of people nowadays, are you sure you didn't set the bar too high. /S

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Pareto principle works here too. It's like 20% are decent, 60% sit on the fence depending on context, and 20% are always awful.

These ratios are more strictly 20/80 the older the sample sets, ie roughly 80% of people over 65 are toxic, in most cases, even when their behavior hurts themselves.

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I'm inclined to agree with you

[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

The parts of the brain responsible for social behavior don't fully develop until adulthood, and the brain gets rewired substantially during puberty, around middle school age. So, a middle schooler is seriously handicapped when it comes to social behavior.

[-] Speiser0@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nah, less than half since sone of them are penetrating, and that proportion on average is less than the number of people that age getting bottom surgery

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