@RustyBertrand Consistent with our behavioral economics findings (#DictatorGame)…

@RustyBertrand In 2023 and in America I'd say it's 10% are merciful and 60% are cruel and the other 30% are also cruel.

@RustyBertrand the Law of Large Numbers and Central Limit Theorem strike again

@RustyBertrand noncommittal, the most natural state

@RustyBertrand personally I believe that 20% of people are deeply stupid and could believe anything for any reason. 1 in 5 won't make any sense to you and are likely to believe or not believe in facts based on who they like. Weaponize the stupid by uniting them, get another 20% who were busy and don't know what is going on but will back whatever seems popular, and 40% support is enough to stop any plan, a few more % (42-45) and you can do anything.

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Sums it up pretty much !

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And for better or worse, that is a normal curve or bell distribution, the statistical metric that is extant in so many expressions of existence.

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Good people will always do good and evil people will always do evil. For a good person to do evil--that takes religion.--Steven Weinberg (paraphrased, I'm not fully eidetic)

@RustyBertrand I fear his numbers were too optimistic. I’d say it’s more like 20-30% on either end.

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Those numbers don't seem to fit America nowadays.

The 10 percent good maybe, but the election of trump, and since then, the percentage of evil sure seems higher.

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And so it goes...

@RustyBertrand @AE4WX My experience has been 20% cruel, 20% good, 50% swayable, and 10% happy to sell you a ticket to the throwdown.

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Maybe if we could get the proper attribution for the quote.

It's Kurt Vonnegut that shared the quote, but it was Susan Sontag that he is quoting.

@RustyBertrand Wonder if that ties in a bit with this:
https://sensitivityresearch.com/people-fall-into-different-sensitivity-groups-orchids-tulips-and-dandelions/

@RustyBertrand unfortunately, this is probably still true

@RustyBertrand i miss him so.

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In Israel, I would say much more than 10% are cruel.

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I keep asking myself HOW can such a vile creature garner any followers. I mean how blind to reality do they have to be? How many lies are going to penetrate their brain?

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It seems more likely that 20% are cruel, at least in Amerikka.

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This is a problem that I hope the AI overlords will solve, by suppressing the evil 10%. Hope is the key word.

@RustyBertrand And we are seeing this on US soil 2016-2023. The EVIL began. 'The Rise of Hitler' playbook I never thought to ever see on US soil. jh, US Army Veteran SGT Investigator NATO 74-77. I learnned all about Nazi SS (MAGA) in Germany 6 years. Disgusting. Evil. Too easy to BRAINWASH citizens. 74 million USA. CULT

@RustyBertrand. https://inthesetimes.com/article/susan-sontag-and-arthur-miller

#SusanSontag

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Who is "she"? It's weird she is cited but only the men citing her has a name.

@RustyBertrand A perfect layperson's understanding of the Milgram Obedience study.

@RustyBertrand she's quite the inspiration ☺️

@RustyBertrand @aral Shouldn’t Sontag be credited with the quote, since she said it?

@RustyBertrand Though I'm afraid in Israel the vast percentage has been moved in the cruel direction.

@RustyBertrand I'd add that it is oft hard to tell which 10% is which by appearances.

@RustyBertrand@mastodon. In other words, most of us learned that Nazi policies ruined Germany and caused tens of millions to violently die.

But for some Hitler is to be studied and improved upon. For them widespread death and ruination are acceptable venture risks.

Perhaps this is why so many of that cruel 10 percent already have their own bunkers.

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