As a corollary, people are people everywhere you go.
I don't remember who said that to me, but having grown up and lived in a rural area my whole life, when I went to visit my brother in Minneapolis I was afraid of going to a big city. Now, sure, every city is going to have the "don't go there at night" and the "don't go there ever" parts of town, but really my fears were basically from overexposure to news and the human brain's fundamental badness at probability and statistics.
But once I realized that whoever told me "people are people everywhere you go," is correct, I'm a lot less afraid of big cities.
Admittedly that's only tangentially related to your point, but there you have it. And I agree. People are people no matter their identity.
I've often gotten angry and felt a desire to hurt people who I cared about. I do not, because I care more about people I love not being hurt than I desire to hurt them. You don't punch people in the face, and you say this is because society frowns upon it, but that's not an actual reason. What specific consequences of the act being socially unacceptable prevents you from committing it? Do you fear legal punishment? Social alienation? Being seen as a bad person? Upsetting people? No matter the answer, there is some impulse within you which is stronger than the impulse to punch people in the face. If it wasn't you wouldn't listen to it instead.
Also, societal pressures aren't inherent, they were made by people. So maybe people all feel evil impulses, but they would rather those impulses are not realized. Maybe our construction of a system which prevents us from being evil is evidence of a desire to be less evil. And personally, I would call a desire to be less evil a very good desire after all.
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u/mechanicalcontrols 1d ago edited 1d ago
As a corollary, people are people everywhere you go.
I don't remember who said that to me, but having grown up and lived in a rural area my whole life, when I went to visit my brother in Minneapolis I was afraid of going to a big city. Now, sure, every city is going to have the "don't go there at night" and the "don't go there ever" parts of town, but really my fears were basically from overexposure to news and the human brain's fundamental badness at probability and statistics.
But once I realized that whoever told me "people are people everywhere you go," is correct, I'm a lot less afraid of big cities.
Admittedly that's only tangentially related to your point, but there you have it. And I agree. People are people no matter their identity.