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What trait instantly makes you despise a person beyond belief? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by overlyanxious@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Undefined@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right. Sorry, I should've mentioned I was thinking of particular types of situations where the person has the mentality of "oh man, I don't know, it'd be cool to know that" and proceeds to not do anything about it.

Or like you say, having strong convictions about something but not having done the reading themselves. I don't mind listening to opposing opinions if they actually believe them and didn't just regugitate something they heard on foxnews.

I think in most cases, curiosity is what drove human development to such heights. And to just stop it at "oh yeah, I dunno hey" takes a very particular type of person... A type of person I just can't understand!

Thanks for pointing that out though, I hadn't quite fully figured out how to articulate what I was trying to say!

[–] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

particular types of situations where the person has the mentality of “oh man, I don’t know, it’d be cool to know that” and proceeds to not do anything about it

My effort in any given day is limited, and gone are the days of high school/college where I would just stay up all night because I found some random rabbit hole of trivia I wanted to know more about. Like yeah, there's plenty of things I would gladly download to my brain given an instantaneous button to do so, but a much smaller list of things I actually consider worth the effort, even if I'm interested