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No one is mentioning how cool it would be if we used it in a smoothie machine?

No offense but the same can be said about all of your reasoning: 

(Sorry for not responding earlier, I don't always notice posts.)

I'm not completely advocating for blind optimism either but you make fair points and indeed some things that could be said about pessimism can be said about optimism. It's just my glaring bias; I see much more pessimists than optimists where I am from...except that pessimism isn't coming from actually being poor, depressed, abused, or some other real problem but is deliberately being used to justify their own ideas and morals because "Boohoo! Nobody understands me!" A few "optimists" do that as well (just look at Christian fundementalists who preach for bigotry, homophobia, and xenophobia behind the mask of optimism), but more recently people online like to play the "depressed, poor, edgy, special snowflake university student" card to push their agendas.

It almost feels like seeing black and red OCs coming to life. I've met people who deliberately deny evidence, let alone compromise through the mask of pessimism and sad life stories. That should have been something I added: Pessimism and optimism has been far too overused to justify ideological and "moralistic" behavior.

That's why I had decided to stop posting on the Orlando shooting topic altogether. Three pages in and rather than people calmly talking out on how to deal with Muslim extremists it became a fire pit of deciding whether "Islamophobia is racist". Only a few like Twiggy actually debated in a civilized manner. Debate should be a time where opposing views come together and people talk it out, not people throwing around moralistic crap and plastering labels onto people.

I base things on evidence. Sometimes that evidence points into the low probability of success or the high probability into something that is going to happen that is unfavorable. I don't do things based upon "hope" I do them based upon evidence.

 

So yes, I'm a realist. I go based upon what the cards are pointing to.

 

I also disagree with your first point. In my experience just as many optimistic people will stand to their point as pessimistic. I have a brother in law who can't see the bad in anything even if it's laid out to him. Both pessimism and optimism have a level of accepted ignorance and both have a level of stubbornness.

 

In fact a lot of your points could be applied to optimism as well...

That was something I already noted, but I felt like it much more evident on the pessimistic side than the optimistic one, mostly because there are much more pessimists than the latter, and it tends to turn up more often in the younger generation.

It's probably me, though; I tend to see far more pessimists, and probably the tiring side of it. It just gets annoying when people use pessimism, call it "realism", and plaster themselves as self-righteous, and you somehow have to be "smarter" to understand their perspective. It's just insulting.

That's religion the way it should be: kind and accepting. I'm glad things turned out for the better.

It's mostly because certain religious people are doing otherwise that have discouraged a significant amount of people from religion itself, or at the very least Christianity.

I'm definitely not amoral, but agreeably throwing morals into places where it doesn't concern them is irrelevant and foolish. I think it's annoying when someone justifies political, economic, or social ideas with "BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO!" or something similar. Here's the reality: people won't always share the same morality that you do, so placing it anywhere where it doesn't concern it basically means that only your morality is correct and everyone else that isn't with me is wrong.

That's why I've taken a more moderate position in politics, especially when I realized that some liberals like to use their "superior" morality to justify stuff like gun control or free healthcare or free education. I can be up for any of these, but I want to see solid proof, not sentimental BS and "appeal to the commom man" rhetoric.

I disagree more with the philosophy of cynicism, though, not because of the concepts of it but what people have used it for. Based on my experiences with debating I always feel like people use pessimism, cynicism, or defeatism to paint themselves as the intellectual "realist" while berating the patriot or the optimist as the delusional and ignorant reactionary. It honestly just pisses me off.

Other than that, pragmatism over morality in the realm of politics and economics. If you need to crush a gnat, best do it with a sledgehammer.

Let's not mention that Mayor Mare also made a shocking push into the World Cup after qualifications.

I can vouch for people abusing the last one, I was once in a chat group full of attention-seekers and most of them were in love with faking over-the-top DID with absurd personalities(I recall on young girl pretended to think she was some kind of ancient goddess) and one kid of 15 tried to say he had like 5 personalities.

 

A real people with DID rarely have more than three personalities; three is uncommon enough. This can be somewhat justified if they experienced something traumatic because they might create a new personality that has the traits they want, reflect their loss, or simply forget about what happened before (associated with amnesia).

But it's not confirmed that traumatic events cause DID. There are cases, albeit a few, that may have to do with genetics or other causes.

I missed autism (I'm probably going to be a bit more serious on this one), ADHD and bipolar, by the way. Should add that soon.