We're all subject to the mercy and goodwill of others at one point or another.
Mentioning such a plain and obvious fact about the world strikes hard as underwhelming.
And yet, one cannot help but act in shameful ways.
Whether those ways be displays of arrogance, flashes of malice, unwarranted debasement, or cold indifference.
Why?
Why is it that you have the impulse to humiliate others in intellectual discourse?
Why is it that you have the impulse to toy with the emotions of others?
Why is it that you have the impulse to turn away and withhold compassion and affection?
Couldn't we just as easily be the targets of those transgressions, rather than their felons?
Surely you know what it feels like; to be humiliated, to be toyed with, to be undesired.
Maybe that is what makes the current state of affairs all the more wretched.
The fact that we know how best to harm others because we know what best harms ourselves.
So maybe a little less haughtiness, a little less contempt, and a little more consideration towards your fellow man.
If not for their sake, for your own: wish that they afford you the kindness you've demonstrated to them, in your time of need.
Else, you're going to end up alone.
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