don't be an asshole

this past sunday i made a joke about people going crazy and shooting other people and wondering why it doesn't happen more often. a few days later this shooting outside of the empire state building in new york city happens. and that sucked. cuz i'm not rooting for this sorta thing. when i jokingly say, 'i wonder why more people aren't getting shot,' i don't want anyone to actually go out and do it.

the joke is more me acknowledging that people can tend to suck. the world is full of assholes. and although i'm not thrilled with the concept of sharing an existence with a world populated with douchebags, i don't root for their demise either. shooting someone cuz they suck at life just makes you a bigger asshole than they are.

if you wanna stop the assholes, becoming one yourself isn't gonna fix anything. really, the only fix to stop the assholes is to not be one yourself. doing something to retaliate against them is sinking down to their level. it suddenly makes you no better then they are. not only did you not stop the assholes, you switched teams and helped strengthen their cause.

because the world is full of assholes, i know the shootings will never really stop. there'll always be another shooting. and there's probably a lot more shootings than we're aware of. most shootings don't make the 10 o'clock news. people shooting people is a sickening byproduct of the suck side of humanity.

if you really wanna fight against assholes, just don't be one. it's that simple. if someone near you is being an asshole, be the better person and walk away. we'll never free ourselves of all the assholes of the world. but maybe that's the point. maybe we need assholes in our lives to remind us how awesome everyone who isn't an asshole is.