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by ecdavis 3355 days ago
> Why do people wish for apocalypses?

To validate ideology.

2 comments

Not necessarily -- if I believe your actions make everyone but yourself worse off, it's not entirely unreasonable for me to choose an outcome where I'm a little worse off than I would be in order to ensure that your benefit is reduced or taken away. This outcome is common in situations where trust does not exist between parties -- my action might actually be required to motivate you to seek to rebuild trust.

I can easily interpret your characterization of me with the phrase "wishing for the apocalypse" as you overstating the relative importance of your loss vs mine.

If the premise of the question is invalid then my answer is irrelevant.
Some people just want to watch the world burn?