KingOfRome
Buff Auschwitz Escapee
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Think of it this way.
You were born without hands, and you want to play tennis. But when you try to grab the racket, you can't. So you ask someone around you, who does have hands, why you can't grab the racket. The other person says it's because you don't try. You try to grab the racket, and fail. Again, you are accused of not trying. Understandably, this annoys you. The other person senses this, gets offended, and calls you lazy and entitled for expecting the racket to do all the work for you while you don't even try, and if you didn't have such a toxic personality, you would be able to grab the racket. Confused, you take a close look at the situation in front of you, think it through, perhaps even refer to a book or two about human anatomy and biomechanics if there are any nearby. At this point, you come to a startling revelation: to grab certain items, like rackets, you need hands. But when you tell this to the other person, they get mad at you and ask why you think you know more about grabbing things as someone who's never grabbed anything in his life than someone to whom grabbing things comes naturally. It never occurs to this person that it's not his personality that lets him grab the tennis racket, but his hands.
You were born without hands, and you want to play tennis. But when you try to grab the racket, you can't. So you ask someone around you, who does have hands, why you can't grab the racket. The other person says it's because you don't try. You try to grab the racket, and fail. Again, you are accused of not trying. Understandably, this annoys you. The other person senses this, gets offended, and calls you lazy and entitled for expecting the racket to do all the work for you while you don't even try, and if you didn't have such a toxic personality, you would be able to grab the racket. Confused, you take a close look at the situation in front of you, think it through, perhaps even refer to a book or two about human anatomy and biomechanics if there are any nearby. At this point, you come to a startling revelation: to grab certain items, like rackets, you need hands. But when you tell this to the other person, they get mad at you and ask why you think you know more about grabbing things as someone who's never grabbed anything in his life than someone to whom grabbing things comes naturally. It never occurs to this person that it's not his personality that lets him grab the tennis racket, but his hands.