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they call it mind-blindness
Jan. 11th, 2009 08:11 amHEY DUDE HEY DUDE YOU KNOW WHAT I HAVEN'T DONE IN A GOOD WHILE?
ESSAYED \o/ you are all so happy right.
Anyway. So Devit's been in camp for about 8.5 months now. And I was thinking about how Devit has adapted to camp in that time and why. At the moment in camp, Devit is--fairly content. He's as content as Devit gets, which is to say that he still flies off the handle, and he still breaks down over stupid things and busts out with "I DON'T KNOW WHY I DON'T JUST KILL YOU ALL RIGHT NOW"--but then he's able to suppress that urge (if he wants to) instead of actually going through with it in a fit of rage. And that's what "content" is for Devit. XD His tendency towards violence at the moment is low. YOU WILL PROBABLY SURVIVE PISSING HIM OFF unless you really push it or you piss Jasdero off too.
I was thinking about this shift, and how it's come about, and what exactly happened in his head to facilitate it. The short answer is that Devit believes in the inherent weakness and evil and uselessness of humans as much as he ever did, but he is less angry at them about it, and so he's less inclined to kill them in anger, although his inclination to kill them for other reasons has not diminished.
THE LONG ANSWER FOLLOWS.
( Devit, empathy, theory of mind, and self-preservation )
HOW WAS THAT o man it's been so long since I had a good essay.
ESSAYED \o/ you are all so happy right.
Anyway. So Devit's been in camp for about 8.5 months now. And I was thinking about how Devit has adapted to camp in that time and why. At the moment in camp, Devit is--fairly content. He's as content as Devit gets, which is to say that he still flies off the handle, and he still breaks down over stupid things and busts out with "I DON'T KNOW WHY I DON'T JUST KILL YOU ALL RIGHT NOW"--but then he's able to suppress that urge (if he wants to) instead of actually going through with it in a fit of rage. And that's what "content" is for Devit. XD His tendency towards violence at the moment is low. YOU WILL PROBABLY SURVIVE PISSING HIM OFF unless you really push it or you piss Jasdero off too.
I was thinking about this shift, and how it's come about, and what exactly happened in his head to facilitate it. The short answer is that Devit believes in the inherent weakness and evil and uselessness of humans as much as he ever did, but he is less angry at them about it, and so he's less inclined to kill them in anger, although his inclination to kill them for other reasons has not diminished.
THE LONG ANSWER FOLLOWS.
( Devit, empathy, theory of mind, and self-preservation )
HOW WAS THAT o man it's been so long since I had a good essay.
