• Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Collective willpower? Or centuries worth of social contract? Humans are kind of just animals who can predict the future by writing down the past.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve had some pretty nasty intrusive thoughts. I’d like to believe it’s more than just social conditioning that kept them under wraps. But maybe.

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        1 year ago

        That’s just “I wanted to do it.” but dressed up in “it’s not socially acceptable to want that.”