That is to say, why should I care about other people when nature/society/biology will punish me for every attempt at empathy or compassion, when most other humans largely don't care about those outside of themselves or their own family, therefore would be unlikely to assist or continue any potential effort I could make at actual altruism, and when few people aside from my own parents have ever given a damn about me(most people who I've actually known have been outright hostile to me), so why exactly should I care about them? I can't think of a single good reason, not even one.
Just about any effort I could make would be futile, go unappreciated, and as I insinuated before, the reality we live in rewards predation not charity, and attempting to offer the latter accomplishes nothing more than self flagellation. Personally I find it hilarious that I've used consequentialist ethics to come to the realization that trying to act on my concern for others is usually counterproductive, in respect to reducing suffering, and it's at best a pointless waste of effort.
I mean even my first mentioned reason alone I imagine would convince most here. Between women being actively repulsed by men who display weakness/empathy/docility(to the point where they select dark triad Chad over regular Chad), capitalism rewarding concern for profit over anything else, bullies typically having greater academic success than their victims, a lack of willingness to subject a life of probable inceldom onto your potential child resulting in lifelong loneliness(@RageAgainstTDL summed this up perfectly), and nature outright trying to kill you for being concerned with the welfare of others, it all looks pretty damning. Keep in mind, this is just the obvious stuff off the top of my head.
It's not that I've really changed my reasoning, it's just that I find effort to be futile, and I can no longer muster the will to care about much of it. I hate this reality so fucking much tbh.
Just about any effort I could make would be futile, go unappreciated, and as I insinuated before, the reality we live in rewards predation not charity, and attempting to offer the latter accomplishes nothing more than self flagellation. Personally I find it hilarious that I've used consequentialist ethics to come to the realization that trying to act on my concern for others is usually counterproductive, in respect to reducing suffering, and it's at best a pointless waste of effort.
I mean even my first mentioned reason alone I imagine would convince most here. Between women being actively repulsed by men who display weakness/empathy/docility(to the point where they select dark triad Chad over regular Chad), capitalism rewarding concern for profit over anything else, bullies typically having greater academic success than their victims, a lack of willingness to subject a life of probable inceldom onto your potential child resulting in lifelong loneliness(@RageAgainstTDL summed this up perfectly), and nature outright trying to kill you for being concerned with the welfare of others, it all looks pretty damning. Keep in mind, this is just the obvious stuff off the top of my head.
It's not that I've really changed my reasoning, it's just that I find effort to be futile, and I can no longer muster the will to care about much of it. I hate this reality so fucking much tbh.
