Bad People.

[nobodobodon]

Comments

[kitty_smack]

I like this train of thought. And ya' know, you can't teach chess to someone that only wants to learn checkers. It'd be nice if you could force 'em to learn chess, for their own good, of course.

[silverize]

Amen!

Right on.

[furfybird]

I love your mind, my friend.

Re: Right on.

[nobodobodon]

Thank you. This idea came about during a conversation with my lovely wife, so I can't take full credit for it.

[captainsodium]

I'm not sure I understand the people-being skill you're talking about and rather liken it maybe to dog training. Everyone's dog has bad behaviors. But they're all different because people train out the ones that annoy them personally and get along with the bad dog anyway.

Maybe with people it's not so much a training issue as a selection one. We select the people who's bad people skills are no big deal to us and accept the bad peopleness of others that seem like no big deal in our scheme of things.

It's mostly a matter of taste at that point.

Speaking of taste, I'm making chili and it smells great.

[nobodobodon]

The main people-being skills I'm thinking about "not hitting", "not making oneself completely miserable", and "establishing and maintaining basic relationships". People who are selected as company by no one at all might be merely unlucky, or they might be bad at being people.

I would say it's definitely a matter of taste whether you have to, for instance, choose your dinner companions between people who whine too much or people bathe too little.

I think there's a pretty big difference between that and, for instance, deciding whether or not to spend holidays with people who physically assault you during your visits.

[gg]

>> It's mostly a matter of taste at that point.

Sodium, if you start eating your own poo we'll still accept you, but you'll have to keep that behaviour in the backyard!