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A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People

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377 points NaOH | 2 comments | 24 Apr 25 22:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | source
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Havoc ◴[25 Apr 25 19:04 UTC] No.43797413[source]▶
Also, people that don't have an adversarial bone in their body. They just want everyone to be happy and succeed.

A lot of people reckon that applies to them, but the real deal is pretty scarce in my experience.

Always find people like that inspiring.

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aerhardt ◴[25 Apr 25 19:11 UTC] No.43797487[source]▶
I like people like that too, but surely the world and more narrowly the human experience also benefit from having people that are competitive or even disagreeable?
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1. dfxm12 ◴[25 Apr 25 20:41 UTC] No.43798305[source]▶
Mostly, yes, but I think at its core, the world benefits from honesty more than out right agreeable- or disagreeableness. We should speak up when we feel the need to agree or disagree, but we shouldn't play devil's advocate for the sake of it.
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2. sethammons ◴[26 Apr 25 11:48 UTC] No.43802766[source]▶
We absolutely should play devil's advocate. It is the attempt to think about a situation from a different angle and usually is understood to be such. Not an attack; a shake up to see if the structure stands to opposition.