How Evil Are You, Take The Short Quiz

Hmm I got the same evaluation. We are slacking on our vileness.

Either we are all of the same mentality here or a slight flaw has crept into the evaluation process?

Great post, Steve.

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This morning, I was feeling particularly brave, so I read Steve's post.

The questions were banal.

It's a fact of the human condition that we don't feel average. In fact, it's one of the certainties psychics use, to sound like they know us. Some of us want to feel average, and some of us feel contempt for the average...but almost none of us feel average.

Almost everyone feels like they have a developed sense of humor. And in fact, very few people are truly funny, without just telling a joke...that they learned from someone else.

My son (when he was a teenager) asked me why everyone stares at him, when he walks into a restaurant. I told him, "Two reasons. First, you are entering a restaurant. That movement draws attention. Everyone looks at the person entering a restaurant. And...you are six foot seven inches tall. You draw people's attention, but it's a reflex. They aren't thinking about you."

The reason I mentioned this is that we nearly all think of ourselves as unique.

Almost all of us also think;
Very few people understand us.
People are constantly judging us.
We are basically good people.
For our problems to be fixed, other people need to change.
In an argument, the other person is wrong.


In fact, Barnum Statements are statements that sound individual, but are really pretty universal. For example;

You have a great need for other people to like and admire you.
You have a tendency to be critical of yourself.
You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage.
While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them.
Your sexual adjustment has presented problems for you.
Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside.
At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing.
You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations.
You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof.
You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others.
At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved.
Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic.
Security is one of your major goals in life.

Here is a Wikipedia article that describes how these statements are used to imply insight, where none really exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

Same here.

But the test is nonsense. Nobody thinks they are evil.

But... (and this is true)

I was working with a guy, selling vacuum cleaners. I taught him how to sell, and we worked together for a couple of years. Sometimes we talked about philosophical matters.

One day we were talking about evil. I told him I knew someone that I thought was evil. He used women, was mean to them, never helped anyone, stole from his friends, was totally selfish, and was a coward.

My friend said, "I think you are evil"

I said, "You mean you think I get pleasure from hurting others? You think I hate people?"

He said "No. I think it's worse than that. I don't think you would hurt anyone. But it's not because you're a good person, but because you don't care enough about them, for them to make you want to hurt them. And you don't hate them, because they aren't important enough to you, to warrant your hate. To me, that may be real evil"

It's from memory, and it was maybe 30 years ago, but that was the gist of it.

I told him I just thought of myself as indifferent. We actually liked each other, and enjoyed working together. But I've thought about it a few times since.

Yesterday I stumbled into some hippie dippie videos.

Skip ahead to 1:56:19. There is a story about someone with indifference, and oh - a good dead cat story for you too.


For all of it to make sense, you may have to listen from the beginning for the next 2 hours.

LOL