Is there a meaning to humans insulting other humans beyond psychology ? What is the religious and philosophical reason that humans insult each other if there is a philosophical and religious reason ? To me looking at it objectively humans insulting other humans is pointless there’s no reasoning to it but despite that the emotions that I feel from it are very profound and are not pointless at all so there is a contradiction here between reality and emotions.
Cause its easier to assert dominance through a show of force than it is through a show of rationality and intellectual superiority?
Secondarily: Because people get frustrated and tired with being rational when it leads to nowhere.
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Your first answer was not profound for my liking your second answer assumed that being logical can lead nowhere and be pointless which I disagree with I think insulting people leads nowhere and is pointless all the time.
There is profoundness in simplicity.
You have a tendency for expecting holy revelations where there are none, and disregard truth because its disappointingly simple for your taste.
Well then try to reason the paint off the wall or convince the plants in your garden with sheer logic, which direction they should grow.
Being logical includes knowing when and where logic can be applied.
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'This is the interesting part and it connects to your recent thread on sex. Why is the objective out of synch with the subjective?
So, what is the profundity you experience related to insults?
In certain environments people jokingly insult each other to let them know they are OK with each other’s imperfections—such environments often also include self-deprecating humor. In some situations it is to let them know they are not OK with their imperfections and they need to change them because they are ridiculous for whatever reason (but they still value the person enough to say something). In such environments, if people are not insulting your imperfections, they think you are beyond hope of change, because too weak/sensitive to handle it… so take them as a compliment/encouragement. And if you’re not dishing it back, they will take offense and think you hate them and are holding a grudge. Humans are weird. You have to make it funny or they’ll kill you (somebody famous said a paraphrase of that).
The emotional part is the profound part.
No simple things are not profound hence why they are simple. And yes every answer or almost every answer should be a profound revelation.
Logic in your example doesn’t make sense because plants and paint are not human.
Trying to justify insulting people is despicable.
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“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
— George Bernard Shaw
Your comment was not funny. Prepare to die. (lol jk Princess Bride reference, don’t kill me)
rage mutes thread
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Logical thinking is a cognitive ability my friend.
There are plenty of human beings who are being referred to and are indeed on the cognitive level of plants.
Trying to reason with someone who is incapable of reasoning is exactly the same as trying to convince the grass in your garden with arguments to stay low.
The direct translation of that would be an expectation that you get to go through life without ever being offended.
The only thing profound about that is the sheer hubris of it.
You are living in a world where the difference between life and death is knowing who you can look in the eye and who you cant.
There is no more need to justify the existence and act of insults, than there is to justify grass growing. It simply is. And you prefer insults. Everyone prefers insults.
Because the alternative is with the lack of any kind of other emotional vent, is physical violence.
You do not want to live in a world where insults dont exist.
Nope there is not many human beings with the same cognitive level as plants that’s very dehumanizing to say and just utterly falls there are some people who have the same cognitive level but they would be mentally brain dead perhaps children have the same cognitive level but even that is debatable maybe babies do as well but yet again that’s debatable I think that both babies and children have more cognitive brain faculties than plants.
I would like to add that the expectation is a good expectation to have now is it going to be upheld of course not but it’s still good to have the world is imperfect and I’m able to picture a better world and a better world is a world where people do not get offended and feelings that are bad don’t exist.
So because you don’t care about these things they don’t need to be justified what a horrible answer. And I’m not endorsing violence either that’s I don’t know where you got that from are humans that pathetic that if we didn’t have the power to insult each other we just go straight to violence like come on.
And thats all there is to it.
If you can be this honest with yourself, then you have all the answers you’ll ever need.
The other way around.
Because they exist whether you care or not. Whether you justify them or not.
Something would need to fill the void that is created by the lack of communicating aggression.
What do you suppose that’d be? Rationality and hugs? Sweet summer child.