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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Forgive me, but this position is one of absolute impotence.
Your solution is a "mass culling", but you are without the power to put such a plan into action. Furthermore, you know that this type of solution is unlikely to gain any sort of mainstream approval.
Further, why would in-laws need to be culled if your solution relies on genetically based criteria?
Personally, I don't think that greed or selfishness are traits of a psychotic mind. They are human flaws, present in nearly every person on this planet. You can't get rid of these traits - they are inherent survival instincts, found in all of us.
Laura Trump. Erika Kirk. Etc. Takes a certain type of shit stain to marry a monster.
Mackenzie Bezos and Melinda Gates were outliers.
I totally get that they're outrageously upsetting people, but what would be the governing body to go get them and how would you ensure that they wouldn't simply money themselves out of it? Like someone else on here said, more would just crop up if you don't enact a systemwide change to adjust people's mindsets in the first place.
Everything I pulled up online said psychopathy development definitely involves both nature and nurture (some articles said the influence is even), and we sure as heck haven't exhausted the latter yet: nowhere near.