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absentwalrus58 karma

I'd personally find a way to subtly include most of those things (height, fitness, good with kids, volunteer firefighter) through the pictures - just selecting ones that show what you are about. Think of it as a filtering exercise where you're filtering for people who might like the real you! As for 'general nice guy' I personally feel that's for other people to decide by which I mean there's no need to tell someone you're nice, it'll shine through anyway. I think things mean more to me when I find them out myself so assume that is the same for potential partners. I definitely think your self employed success should be something people find out about you after they meet you - it's not a good reason to be attracted to someone but it's interesting and a good conversation topic.

absentwalrus37 karma

Really impressed that you go as high as 9. I used to have a quite well attended gaming group night and we always struggled for games up to that kind've player count...nice one!

absentwalrus8 karma

I saw the other guys comment about your post history and have now accidentally seen your penis. Best of luck.

absentwalrus6 karma

That's one hell of a question! I just wish to add my two cents as per my study (crime, english literature). Evil doesn't exist. It's a word we use when someone's actions are so vile that we assume its not possible to get there through environmental factors. The more horrible truth is that it is possible to act such a way if your environment is truly awful (primarily in childhood). My experience is that a vast number of high vulgarity criminals were abused physically and/or sexually when they were younger. I am not offering excuses here and you can be more prone to crime through increased testoterone and things such as the 'warrior gene' but these arn't evidence of evil as they can and do exist in people who lead good, honest lives. The sad truth is we are all born human, and if a mixture of bad luck, chance and human environment conspires against you, a human is liable to act in a manner we might (wrongly) refer to as evil.

absentwalrus2 karma

That's a great question and one I can answer directly. This is my personal logical, studied, opinion. With serial killers in particular, most often something horrific happened in their childhood which 'de-humanised' people. Whilst evil is a misnomer, when we say someone has a twisted mind we are actually pretty close. It is simply that we were not there to observe the twisting that makes it difficult to understand at extremes. But we do have concrete examples from history which helps. Now a question which is often asked is how did the common german citizen, during ww2, feel able to treat the Jews in the way that many of them did (not all I might add). The reason is brainwashing. There had been years of propoganda telling the German's that Jews were animals, i.e. they were not human. As soon as somebody truly believes that it opens up their ability to commit violence toward that entity without the disgust it would normally bring about in the criminal. One quick point... We all go through some kind of what could be called brainwashing as a child, it could simply be called learning. But as we are taught by others (words and actions) that learning is out of our control and sometimes the people and environment around us teaches us things that are false, mostly when we experience trauma. I could go on for a long time but hopefully you have the gist of where people are coming from when they say "evil doesn't exist". Many people have tried to come at the issue of evil from a biological perspective, see the research of Lombardi on criminal features and a more recent study which uncovered 'the warrior gene' (spoiler: the loving husband and father who found the gene found he had it too). Ultimately they failed to point towards biology in reference to evil. On the other hand, the study of how the mind is shaped by the environment has made strides towards explaining evil, almost by accident. Through study of fetishes. Or through study of 'the other'. Or through experiments such as that by Zimbardo (prison experiment) to name a few which support the manipulation of the human mind and the potential violent affects.