Empathy for one. In the absence of empathy, if the amount of energy takes for you to get me to do a thing supersedes the amount of energy required for the thing to be done then it wouldn't be practical for you to make me do the thing. Additionally, my awareness of my own mortality makes it impossible for me to be perpetually made to do thing because I can always just kill myself. It incentivizes harming you and the things you care about. It gives your enemies a de-facto ally. But it's intriguing that you think that there is only one reason...
JeerpJoop "If I can make you do what I want and get away with it, why should I not?"
Hym "Well, for starters, there's more than one reason. Secondly, you literally can't. You can only leverage (either) my desire to live against performing the act OR the hope that I may not have to continue doing it indefinitely. Which is how you get people to stay in your suffering cult. You leverage their desire to live and their hope that their suffering will end to get them to do what you want or behave how you want to behave. It's actually kind of illuminating to because if you're God rewards screwing people over then is it not evil? Sounds evil. It ties back into you not actually believing in God but rather believing that God is on your side and that it will forgive you if you do the opposite of what it said."
Hym "Well, for starters, there's more than one reason. Secondly, you literally can't. You can only leverage (either) my desire to live against performing the act OR the hope that I may not have to continue doing it indefinitely. Which is how you get people to stay in your suffering cult. You leverage their desire to live and their hope that their suffering will end to get them to do what you want or behave how you want to behave. It's actually kind of illuminating to because if you're God rewards screwing people over then is it not evil? Sounds evil. It ties back into you not actually believing in God but rather believing that God is on your side and that it will forgive you if you do the opposite of what it said."
by Hym Iam November 8, 2023
Get the If I can make you do what I want and get away with it, why should I not?mug. An achievement you can get in A Hat in Time for typing something really stupid or offensive in the submit box.
Why... just... why... ?
by Wariobros194 April 16, 2023
Get the Whymug. Smug, stupid, self-righteous, preachy, dogmatic, authoritarian, obnoxious, petty, incoherent, zealous, dumb, bad... All of the things that are wrong with the religions minus the promise of magic powers and immortality.
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by Hym Iam April 24, 2024
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Person 1: I'm going to go look up Pizza on the Urban Dictionary.
Person 2: That's weird, but if you really want to, that's fine, I guess.
Person 1: Apparently it's an orgy or a sex party.
Person 2: Why is everything on here related to sex?
Person 2: That's weird, but if you really want to, that's fine, I guess.
Person 1: Apparently it's an orgy or a sex party.
Person 2: Why is everything on here related to sex?
by PhoenixGamer34 October 15, 2023
Get the Why is everything on here related to sex?mug. A retard "If your so smart then why am I stealing your ideas? Huh!? You ever think of THAT?"
Hym "Why would you steal the ideas of someone who's less intelligent than you? This is what I'm talking about guys. This is the kind of shit people say to me. If I'm so smart then why are they stealing my ideas instead of using their own supposedly equally smart ideas? You're stealing them because they're worth more than literally anything else you could steal. Literally. Which is why the only equivalent recourse is the child murder. There is no split. You would need an entirely new category that goes beyond grand larceny to describe this. Super-Omega Larceny Minor (It's not supreme because I'm not the one doing it). But really! How stupid are these people 'If you're so smart... Why am I stealing from you?' It's really the best they can do. If I'm not so smart what is there to steal. There wouldn't be anything to steal you fucking idiot."
Hym "Why would you steal the ideas of someone who's less intelligent than you? This is what I'm talking about guys. This is the kind of shit people say to me. If I'm so smart then why are they stealing my ideas instead of using their own supposedly equally smart ideas? You're stealing them because they're worth more than literally anything else you could steal. Literally. Which is why the only equivalent recourse is the child murder. There is no split. You would need an entirely new category that goes beyond grand larceny to describe this. Super-Omega Larceny Minor (It's not supreme because I'm not the one doing it). But really! How stupid are these people 'If you're so smart... Why am I stealing from you?' It's really the best they can do. If I'm not so smart what is there to steal. There wouldn't be anything to steal you fucking idiot."
by Hym Iam June 26, 2025
Get the If your so smart then why am I stealing your ideasmug.