more comments

David Kirk commented on your link. David wrote: "Self fulfilling prophecy, sort of - "The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come 'true'. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.V David Kirk commented on your link. David wrote: "I guess my point is that's how you know if people are really assholes - watch how they drive, or behave on the Internet, or anywhere they think they're not accountable. I had a mathematician PhD friend who designed surveys and did stats for a living and she once built in questions (for kicks) that decided conclusively that only about 1/2% of people were unmitigated assholes, 5% were mitigated assholes, and more like 10% were assholes when they thought themselves anonymous while the next 25% were jerkish, in that last category. Oddly, it gives me hope."       David Kirk commented on your link. David wrote: "Karma was originally less of a grand notion related to sort of "spiritual baggage" and more about the golden rule - do good be nice and usually that will be reciprocated by those around you and visa-versa. The big thing I'm hung up on is how someone can drive 55 in a school zone, whip around you, flip you off, but then step out of their car and be completely civilized? People think they're invisible inside their cars."