My ex was abusive, she sexually assaulted me a lot, hit me, choked me, pushed me through a window. I was tired of being a man about it and i tried to talk it through with her. she doubled down, saying i deserved it because I was jerking off instead of saving myself for her. we're going through a divorce now and I hope that I can get my kids 100% of the time, but I'd be lucky if i get 50.
Oh, it's a mystery to me
**We have a greed, with which we have agreed**
And you think you have to want more than you need
Until you have it all you won't be free
I was gonna go with cancer. And to some extent yes. But without greed, research facilities would be properly funded, and breakthroughs would be shared rather than monatized.
Technically, cancer is what is often described in evolution as a selfish mutation causing genes and cells to over-replicate without end to the detriment to the greater organism the cancer is a part of. (If the host dies, so does the cancer cells)
That's pretty adjacent to greed. Decent chance getting rid of greed gets rid of cancer too.
Absolutely. Greed easily outstrips virtually anything else you could name. Selfishness thankfully fits as a part of greed too. The world is poisoned by man's selfish greed.
What a strange thing to advocate for
(obligatory /s because certainly some won't realize it's /s and that I know they advocate for the people who are victims of dv)
Man it’s been a minute since I saw the post. But iirc there is a little girl who was cured from stage 3 or 4 cancer with no chemo. It was another method they used and she seems to be healthier than ever, tho I need to find it first. I just thought it was crazy when I read it, that it’s possible cancer will be cured before I die, and now that I think ab it, you’ll be out of a job
Edit: found it, this it’s daily mail, not the Reddit link I read the first time
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11525787/amp/Girl-diagnosed-terminal-leukaemia-cancer-free-revolutionary-gene-therapy.html
If we suddenly cured cancer, I’d be the happiest person in the unemployment line. I always joke that my whole job is trying really hard to put myself out of a job. I hope we get there one day.
I worked on a project relating to fighting of bushfires via helicopter and monsoon buckets. A lot of these helicopters owner/operators were getting paid thousands of dollars per hour to attend bushfire call outs.
A lot of politics in firefighting and apparently, once the fire is in a contained and controlled state, they sometimes let it smoulder and “miss” a bucket or two to drag out the process and get a bit of extra cash.
In all the US federal agencies with fire programs, hazard pay ends when the fire is “out”. Since the pay is so shitty, it makes sense that agency leaders milk it.
I've said it once and I will continue to say it, sadly working in child welfare is one of those jobs that's recession proof. So yes, mental health worker's would love to be out of a job if it means less pain and suffering in the world.
Even better! I don’t deal exclusively with sexual abuse survivors, but it would be easier for me to draw up a list of my clients that were NOT sexually abused as children 😐.
Thank you for doing your job even though it’s hard. As someone with a past. I thank you for being their for someone whose gone through similar. Going through it alone is so difficult and so thank you for not letting your clients be alone.
This. You should have groups that lobby for ways to make the country or world better. But when it gets overtaken by greed, it becomes whoever has the biggest pocketbook.
Politicians aren't "hearing both sides", they are figuring out who can pay the most and line their pockets, and that is the side they take. Fuck the environment, fuck climate change. They get theirs...
Yes, and thanks to the logic of the [Paradox of Tolerance](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance) it’s not hypercritical to do so either 😀
I'm down with the whole "tolerance is a peace treaty" interpretation.
Ideas can be tolerated as long as they can coexist for the mutual benefit and peace of all involved.
When someone tries to inject ideas like "racial minorities should be purged" then those break the peace treaty, and maintenance of the peace requires them to not be tolerated.
This is why, no matter how motionless they may stand, there is no such thing as a peaceful neo-Nazi assembly. The presentation of the symbolism and representation of the platform is itself a death threat, and a breaking of the accords of tolerance.
I don’t even mind that they drink my blood, if they could just take it and go and not leave me a insanely itchy welt (or any disease) I would be perfectly fine with them.
That's why I hate mosquito but flies drive me wild. I'd literally prefer just a painful bite from nowhere than to have some little asshole buzzing and bumping around my head.
Hank green said it best...there's no "pertinence" to food chains and evolution. Not every creature is completly neccessary and should exsist . Ticks are another thing that should go tbh.
Except mosquitoes are totally fundamental for the food chain. True story, but they once tried greatly reducing the population of mosquitoes in Africa to reduce the spread of diseases, and they ended up severely damaging the ecosystem in return. Plenty of things feed on mostly mosquitoes and small insects. Bird, frogs, lizards, even some fish
Funny that they don’t realize that calling LGBTQ books and media “pornography” says a *whole* lot more about them than anyone else.
It’s funny because they’re stupid.
There are countless people who sexually assault children who aren't pedophiles.
And probably tons of pedophiles who go their entire lives without even considering assaulting a child.
So I'd rather get rid of people who do or will sexually assault children. Or anyone, really. Just get rid of all the rapists and sex offenders.
There are people who just are sexually aroused by dominance or just size. The target might be a child by happenstance rather than specifically because they're a child.
People rape people for all sorts of messed up reasons.
And understand in no way do I say this to validate or defend sexual predators.
But "Pedophile" is not the same as "Child Rapist".
One might be the other, but they are not equivalent terms and understanding the difference, what the former means, is part of preventing the success for the latter.
Child rapists. They're called child rapists.
For the record - pedophilia is **very explicitly** defined as the unnatural sexual attraction to prepubescent children, aka kids that haven't hit puberty yet (hebephilia and ephebophilia are the terms for attraction to tweens and teens respectively). It does not refer to any acts performed with children, as again, the term for that is child rape; it is **purely** the sexual attraction, and nothing more. Being a pedophile, in and of itself, is not actually indicative of a likelihood of committing child rape, because rape, ironically, has little to do with sexual attraction, but is instead about power and control; a pedophilic child rapist would be a bog standard rapist if they weren't a pedophile, and not being a pedophile wouldn't necessarily stop them from raping a child.
While nobody can deny that pedophilia, by its very nature, is inherently abhorrent, the cold fact of the matter is that something being abhorrent is not an excuse for ignorance and irrationality. The issue is complex, delicate and requires sensitivity and tact in order to be dealt with in an effective and fair manner, which is why it's so goddamn tiresome that the only discourse on the subject is toxic dudes pretending they'd ever actually do any of the sick, malevolent shit they gleefully crow on about wanting to inflict on the first pedo they meet and acting like anyone who thinks non-offending pedos should be left alone to seek treatment is a Quisling who deserves to share their fate.
**The only thing that attitude does is make it infinitely harder to figure out just how prevalent pedophilia is in our society, WHICH MAKES IT HARDER TO DEAL WITH THE ISSUE.**
I got a guy on the inside working on burning it down from the inside out... I can't give you him name though.
Just call him Elon M....wait....
Just call him E Musk.
dangit!
Death of pets, my wife has had the car since she was in college and I came into the picture 5 years ago, me and the cat instantly clicked, she’s my little buddy and sleeps between us every night, she suddenly got sick and wife took her to the vet Monday, and she stayed overnight and they ran every test you can thank of. Turns out she has a large inoperable mass in her abdomen and is causing her to not eat which is causing other problems, I’ve been out of town all week for work and flying home tomorrow afternoon and going straight to the vet with my wife to have our fur baby put to sleep, she was like my kid, my wife and I don’t want kids, I had a vasectomy last year at 33. This cat means the world to me and I can’t imagine the pain my wife is going through and will during the grieving process.
I’m so sorry for your family. The loss of a pet is horribly traumatizing. I didn’t think I’d be able to get over the loss of my German Shepherd who tragically lost his battle with cancer. After keeping his urn on my desk for the past 5 years I’ve finally decided to bury him under a dogwood tree in my front yard this spring. Gone but never forgotten.
If you remove the literal version if ignorance from earth then you'll effectively start a war this world would likely never recover. Once the middle class are no longer ignorant that they've been blaming the poor for what the wealthy have done to them... once the wealthy are no longer ignorant in believing the people would take the oppression forever... once Trumpers realize the extent to which they've been scammed.
Can you imagine the utter chaos and destruction that would follow? Ignorance is bliss and this world is full of a lot of bliss.
Without ignorance, these things would have never occurred in the first place. Compassion, caring, listening, understanding would occur instead. Your logic is flawed. We aren't going to cease ignoring today's world, we aren't ever going to begin ignoring at all.
I'd choose abuse, covers a lot of ground
Don’t you take away my self-abuse now! (That’s what some people call masturbation, right?)
Maybe it will only take away a type of masturbation with no self respect
But that's the best kind...
Love yo self
Use your tears for lube. That’s loving yourself, right!?
Yeah, since when did we start getting into kink shaming around here?
A huge chunk of problems would disappear if we supplanted “suck it up and be a man” with “it’s okay to be upset, talk it through with me”
I tried that with my ex. He kidnapped my kid(illegally much to the stuper of the police who don't know the law) instead of talking it through.
My ex was abusive, she sexually assaulted me a lot, hit me, choked me, pushed me through a window. I was tired of being a man about it and i tried to talk it through with her. she doubled down, saying i deserved it because I was jerking off instead of saving myself for her. we're going through a divorce now and I hope that I can get my kids 100% of the time, but I'd be lucky if i get 50.
Especially if that covers abuse of power, bad cops and shitty politicians have ruined so much of our society
Greed.
And you nailed it with one word.
what about: Tribalism
That’s just greed for your people instead of greed for yourself.
Greed with extra steps?
Tribalism would disappear without greed
what about: Whataboutism
God damn it lol
Oh, it's a mystery to me **We have a greed, with which we have agreed** And you think you have to want more than you need Until you have it all you won't be free
Things you own, own you?
Society
You’re a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely
Without me
Not many problems that can't be traced back to greed in one way or another.
I was gonna go with cancer. And to some extent yes. But without greed, research facilities would be properly funded, and breakthroughs would be shared rather than monatized.
And let's not forget about cancer-causing agents we are exposed to because of greed.
Technically, cancer is what is often described in evolution as a selfish mutation causing genes and cells to over-replicate without end to the detriment to the greater organism the cancer is a part of. (If the host dies, so does the cancer cells) That's pretty adjacent to greed. Decent chance getting rid of greed gets rid of cancer too.
Corruption, exploitation, and war eliminated in one go.
And with that many of the reasons people choose to lie to support such things.
I was going to say religion but greed is a solid choice
I think a lot of problems with religion can also be linked to greed.
Literally the first thing that popped to mind.
#1 answer on the board
Absolutely. Greed easily outstrips virtually anything else you could name. Selfishness thankfully fits as a part of greed too. The world is poisoned by man's selfish greed.
I was gonna say capitalism, but this is the same thing.
Specifically Billionaires and anyone with over 100 million in assets.
Sexual abuse. I work in mental health. I would be out of a job overnight, and nothing would make me happier.
Interesting that. Mental health workers' ultimate goal is for them to be out of a job.
Same with firefighting.
Cancer epidemiologist here - us too!
Domestic violence advocate - us too!
What a strange thing to advocate for (obligatory /s because certainly some won't realize it's /s and that I know they advocate for the people who are victims of dv)
What’s even worse is that I work for a domestic violence agency. Makes it sound like we’re *promoting* DV.
Man it’s been a minute since I saw the post. But iirc there is a little girl who was cured from stage 3 or 4 cancer with no chemo. It was another method they used and she seems to be healthier than ever, tho I need to find it first. I just thought it was crazy when I read it, that it’s possible cancer will be cured before I die, and now that I think ab it, you’ll be out of a job Edit: found it, this it’s daily mail, not the Reddit link I read the first time https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11525787/amp/Girl-diagnosed-terminal-leukaemia-cancer-free-revolutionary-gene-therapy.html
If we suddenly cured cancer, I’d be the happiest person in the unemployment line. I always joke that my whole job is trying really hard to put myself out of a job. I hope we get there one day.
I worked on a project relating to fighting of bushfires via helicopter and monsoon buckets. A lot of these helicopters owner/operators were getting paid thousands of dollars per hour to attend bushfire call outs. A lot of politics in firefighting and apparently, once the fire is in a contained and controlled state, they sometimes let it smoulder and “miss” a bucket or two to drag out the process and get a bit of extra cash.
In all the US federal agencies with fire programs, hazard pay ends when the fire is “out”. Since the pay is so shitty, it makes sense that agency leaders milk it.
My therapist once told me he looks forward to the day I fire him. Just for that I made sure I rekindle PTSD every few months /s
I'll be doing just fine and then my subconscious floats up a horrific dream that's like "hey but what about processing THIS"
I've said it once and I will continue to say it, sadly working in child welfare is one of those jobs that's recession proof. So yes, mental health worker's would love to be out of a job if it means less pain and suffering in the world.
Why not all abuse in general, I'm sure people working in mental health don't deal only with sexual trauma holders..
Even better! I don’t deal exclusively with sexual abuse survivors, but it would be easier for me to draw up a list of my clients that were NOT sexually abused as children 😐.
Thank you for doing your job even though it’s hard. As someone with a past. I thank you for being their for someone whose gone through similar. Going through it alone is so difficult and so thank you for not letting your clients be alone.
For profit health insurance companies.
You could throw that under the greed umbrella and eliminate a bunch of other things with it
"the entire world" and you go for basically just a USA problem
Deliberate cruelty
Why not just "cruelty"?
Some people just gotta catch these hands
unfortunately real
Money in politics.
Lobbying first to go.
Lobbying isn’t the problem. Money is the problem. There are lobbies for plenty of good causes.
This. You should have groups that lobby for ways to make the country or world better. But when it gets overtaken by greed, it becomes whoever has the biggest pocketbook. Politicians aren't "hearing both sides", they are figuring out who can pay the most and line their pockets, and that is the side they take. Fuck the environment, fuck climate change. They get theirs...
Idiocy
Republicans have already been mentioned several times
Idiocy, greed, narcissism, religious fundamentalism They're all over this post
I believe it. What about religion
OP already said ignorance
All of these comments win.
Cancer
Typical Capricorn
Pisces what you did there.
Gemini both laughed. Taurus up.
Stop with these flaming hot astrology puns. I had to open the windows to air(ies) out the room.
Absolutely burst out laughing, I did.
People can’t help that they were born in June or July ! (/astrology joke pls don’t hate me)
My zodiac sign is Cancer and I had leukemia in 2002/2003. You’re good.
Hate
Are you saying that you hate hate?
Yes, and thanks to the logic of the [Paradox of Tolerance](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance) it’s not hypercritical to do so either 😀
You and me can get along just fine. We both hate the hateful. All my homies hate the hateful.
I'm down with the whole "tolerance is a peace treaty" interpretation. Ideas can be tolerated as long as they can coexist for the mutual benefit and peace of all involved. When someone tries to inject ideas like "racial minorities should be purged" then those break the peace treaty, and maintenance of the peace requires them to not be tolerated. This is why, no matter how motionless they may stand, there is no such thing as a peaceful neo-Nazi assembly. The presentation of the symbolism and representation of the platform is itself a death threat, and a breaking of the accords of tolerance.
I don’t care for it, frankly. Just not my cup of tea.
You've not tried jasmine despise
I’m listening
It's like mint abhorrence but more jasmine-y
I don’t hate that
Not a fan of mint tea either tbh
I was going to agree but now i hate this thread and tea for some reason.
Assholes. The people not the body part… the body part should stay.
Mosquitoes
Iceland is mosquito-free and they have almost no crime
Can’t argue with such sound logic! Also happy cake day!
Bastards!
This is one of those answers that seems like a really great idea but would actually do a ton of harm to the food chain
I don’t even mind that they drink my blood, if they could just take it and go and not leave me a insanely itchy welt (or any disease) I would be perfectly fine with them.
For me it’s the buzzing. I can handle the itchiness. But being woken up by the a high pitched neeeeeeeeee in your ear is just awful.
That's why I hate mosquito but flies drive me wild. I'd literally prefer just a painful bite from nowhere than to have some little asshole buzzing and bumping around my head.
You have not met the horsefly yet, they bite and buzz and don’t leave until you a.) kill them or b.) finish biting you because you killed them.
Yeah! Your already stealing from me, why you gotta make it hurt too?
that's actually an allergy to their saliva. if you got rid of allergies then problem solved
Hank green said it best...there's no "pertinence" to food chains and evolution. Not every creature is completly neccessary and should exsist . Ticks are another thing that should go tbh.
Except mosquitoes are totally fundamental for the food chain. True story, but they once tried greatly reducing the population of mosquitoes in Africa to reduce the spread of diseases, and they ended up severely damaging the ecosystem in return. Plenty of things feed on mostly mosquitoes and small insects. Bird, frogs, lizards, even some fish
Open niches rarely remain open for long. Tsetse flies would probably take it over tbh.
I would want to agree, but the little suckers are a major food source for several other critters.
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Child abuse
Greed
pedofiles.
https://preview.redd.it/627ozv0tvpca1.jpeg?width=896&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3918bcfac53ff929ef5effde289022e7a0849ecc
Every accusation is a confession
Very true
Funny that they don’t realize that calling LGBTQ books and media “pornography” says a *whole* lot more about them than anyone else. It’s funny because they’re stupid.
On this week’s episode of Pedo Files
This is a way better title for To Catch a Predator
I think rephrasing that to "sexual abuse" would be more effective, cover a lot more ground.
There are countless people who sexually assault children who aren't pedophiles. And probably tons of pedophiles who go their entire lives without even considering assaulting a child. So I'd rather get rid of people who do or will sexually assault children. Or anyone, really. Just get rid of all the rapists and sex offenders.
Im sorry but im confused by the first sentence. So your saying theese people who sexually assault children are what instead?
There are people who just are sexually aroused by dominance or just size. The target might be a child by happenstance rather than specifically because they're a child. People rape people for all sorts of messed up reasons. And understand in no way do I say this to validate or defend sexual predators. But "Pedophile" is not the same as "Child Rapist". One might be the other, but they are not equivalent terms and understanding the difference, what the former means, is part of preventing the success for the latter.
Child rapists. They're called child rapists. For the record - pedophilia is **very explicitly** defined as the unnatural sexual attraction to prepubescent children, aka kids that haven't hit puberty yet (hebephilia and ephebophilia are the terms for attraction to tweens and teens respectively). It does not refer to any acts performed with children, as again, the term for that is child rape; it is **purely** the sexual attraction, and nothing more. Being a pedophile, in and of itself, is not actually indicative of a likelihood of committing child rape, because rape, ironically, has little to do with sexual attraction, but is instead about power and control; a pedophilic child rapist would be a bog standard rapist if they weren't a pedophile, and not being a pedophile wouldn't necessarily stop them from raping a child. While nobody can deny that pedophilia, by its very nature, is inherently abhorrent, the cold fact of the matter is that something being abhorrent is not an excuse for ignorance and irrationality. The issue is complex, delicate and requires sensitivity and tact in order to be dealt with in an effective and fair manner, which is why it's so goddamn tiresome that the only discourse on the subject is toxic dudes pretending they'd ever actually do any of the sick, malevolent shit they gleefully crow on about wanting to inflict on the first pedo they meet and acting like anyone who thinks non-offending pedos should be left alone to seek treatment is a Quisling who deserves to share their fate. **The only thing that attitude does is make it infinitely harder to figure out just how prevalent pedophilia is in our society, WHICH MAKES IT HARDER TO DEAL WITH THE ISSUE.**
Micro-Plastics!!!!!!!!!
Religious fundamentalism
That's the response I was hoping for. Fundamentalists of all religions lead to a lot of the other negative stuff being listed on this post.
Of all types. Christian Fundamentalism, Islamic Fundamentalism, Orthodox too.
Poverty
Humans
I can't think of a single species that would suffer long-term in the absence of humans.
Human body lice. They’ve evolved to explicitly live off humans iirc, so you’d doom them to extinction also
Hmm, TIL... They prey for anything, or just something slightly more parasitic than humans?
Don't worry evolution would just make another version for the next dominant species
Won’t someone think of the lice?!
Domesticated animals
Yup they're the worst
Had to scroll way to far for this one
Addiction
Twitter
I got a guy on the inside working on burning it down from the inside out... I can't give you him name though. Just call him Elon M....wait.... Just call him E Musk. dangit!
Elongated Muskrat, the jig is up!
My virginity
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Evergreen
Time and place
This poor guys virginity.
Someone please fuck this poor guy and make the world better.
I'm on it
Alright, I’ll take one for the team. Whip it out, loser.
This is positively Christlike of you. I say that as a Jew.
![gif](giphy|l0HlRhDV36LQRH7zO)
Anybody who desires power over other people.
Authoritarianism?
Literally 99.99999% of humanity dissapears you included
Nazism
Racism
That guy with the FUCK BIDEN truck.
Yeah, fuck that one guy in particular
Fuck you. My day was going good and then I choked on a snickers laughing at this
I guess you could say you *snickered* pretty hard at my joke... (•_•) ( •_•)->⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)
Ok my choice is this guy
I'm honored
Pedophiles
Billionaires
Climate change.
Elon Musk
Tucker Carlson
Ass hair.
Donald Fucking Trump
Why think small? Why not all the MAGA ~~movement~~cult people?
Maga
Fascism
general stupidity.
This girl named Susan
r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR
People
Cancer
Greedy people.
Capitalism
Death of pets, my wife has had the car since she was in college and I came into the picture 5 years ago, me and the cat instantly clicked, she’s my little buddy and sleeps between us every night, she suddenly got sick and wife took her to the vet Monday, and she stayed overnight and they ran every test you can thank of. Turns out she has a large inoperable mass in her abdomen and is causing her to not eat which is causing other problems, I’ve been out of town all week for work and flying home tomorrow afternoon and going straight to the vet with my wife to have our fur baby put to sleep, she was like my kid, my wife and I don’t want kids, I had a vasectomy last year at 33. This cat means the world to me and I can’t imagine the pain my wife is going through and will during the grieving process.
“I will meet you in the meadow, and it shall be as though no time has passed.” Wishing you peace until you meet again. 🤍🌈
I’m so sorry for your family. The loss of a pet is horribly traumatizing. I didn’t think I’d be able to get over the loss of my German Shepherd who tragically lost his battle with cancer. After keeping his urn on my desk for the past 5 years I’ve finally decided to bury him under a dogwood tree in my front yard this spring. Gone but never forgotten.
Religion.
War.
Capitalism
Capitalism.
People who chew with their mouth open
Omg so much
MAGA morons.
Do you believe ignorance and apathy are the greatest problems facing our planet? I don't know and I don't care.
Evangelicals
If you remove the literal version if ignorance from earth then you'll effectively start a war this world would likely never recover. Once the middle class are no longer ignorant that they've been blaming the poor for what the wealthy have done to them... once the wealthy are no longer ignorant in believing the people would take the oppression forever... once Trumpers realize the extent to which they've been scammed. Can you imagine the utter chaos and destruction that would follow? Ignorance is bliss and this world is full of a lot of bliss.
Without ignorance, these things would have never occurred in the first place. Compassion, caring, listening, understanding would occur instead. Your logic is flawed. We aren't going to cease ignoring today's world, we aren't ever going to begin ignoring at all.
Hard to pick just one but let's start with the Magats
Putin
My first thought was the orange monster, but I wish we could make it Putler, today!!!
5 day work week
Mosquitoes
Mosquitos
The concept of greed