When you do wrong, do you own up? Why?
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- Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2024
- Yet more from the Q217 series. Morality, self-delusion, consciousness, and one's true self are here all tackled in a question about scratching a German car.
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"I am the curator of my own reputation for my own sake" is such a good quote
A weird way of saying "I uphold my values"
I have a very similair mantra: "If everyone behaved like I did; would I like that world?"
At least you'd know where you stood!!
Yeah, the virtues of normative socialization, even if it isn't clear at all what those virtues are. So let's say your democratically elected government goes to war and enlists you in the army, would you consciously object because if everyone would do so there couldn't be any wars, or would you go and fight for your country like other patriots?
There's a really good The Twilight Zone episode about that :-)
@@JerehmiaBoaz I have an extreme disdain for soldiers; theyre mindless evil lackeys who poorly hide behind a "Befehl ist Befehl" mentallity. Calling them patriots is an insult to those who do love their country and humanity.
Also democracy does not work at all in this case, as the non-fighting people simply outnumber the fighting people, why would you even consider that democracy in a discussion about justice? XD
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, I came up with that earlier
I accidentally cut a client power cable running their pond. I fessed up and purchased an even better cable. They were dumbfounded and have hired me ever since. Always do the right thing, and demand it of those around you.
😂You sure fucked up.
I had a kid scratch my car and dent it a little, in traffic (he just turned into my lane without looking). The kid was poor. He was with his girlfriend. We pulled onto the next street and looked at the damage together. We exchanged numbers. I said I'd get it assessed for repair and call him.
That kid came every week for 3 months with a cashier's check of a very small amount all the way to my part of town so he could personally make payments for the repair. At that point I told him it was enough and I would cover the rest.
Perhaps I should have just forgiven him, but it wasn't my car and the owner wanted it repaired.
I think about that kid a lot. I think he lost his driving privileges because he had to get a ride to bring the check. What a fine human being though. I hope very much he's having a wonderful life.
I do too, he has a good head on his shoulders. Someone raised him right despite his monetary circumstances. Hopefully he has gone on to do great things.
This is why you get business cards from people or businesses you don't like. After you scratch the car, just write I'm sorry, and leave the business card there.
Evil! I like your style.
@brianartillery thanks🍻. Here's my card. 🤣
@Immortalrounin - 🤔🤔🤔😆😆😆
I know you're joking, but if you behave like that I get why you wouldn't like the people from the business cards. They're probably too honest and kind for your taste.
I once lightly dinged the back of someone's car making a careless turn. I stopped and left my information on the windshield, with an apology and my phone number. The guy who found my note was so gobsmacked that someone had actually been honest and let him know about the minor damage that he just brushed it off with a laugh when I offered to pay. It wasn't a very fancy car, nor was mine. But it definitely made me feel better about taking that sort of measure if it ever happens again.
Whilst I usually refrain from commending American pronunciation, their "Porsche" is much closer to how it is pronounced in German.
To answer the question from the title. Yes always, integrity is an important part of my morals and I’ll never waver on it
F rich people's property, if they'd worry about it they wouldn't own so much of it.
@JerehmiaBoaz F poor people's property too, if they cared, they would own something worth having.
This is what you sound like lol
@@yo-yokirby6663 Except that I can defend my ethical position and it's a bit like your position that poor people should steal valuable stuff (for my part they should only steal what they need, preferably from the rich).
@@JerehmiaBoaz No one should steal. How is it "ethical" to steal from someone for any reason? Also, your argument seems to be that if you own something you should protect it... from theft. So any "rich" person who doesn't protect their stuff from theft with alarms and locks and flashing lights and lasers and guns deserves to be stolen from? What if someone is rich and shoots an intruder who is trying to steal? Is anyone who can afford anything subject to "ethical theft" if they, for instance, leave their wallet at the bus stop?
@@albionswede Because having more property than you need at the expense of others who need it but don't have it is a crime in my book. If your hypothetical rich man kills a poor man who's stealing to survive he's committed at least two crimes. I don't know why supposed Christians are always so upset about this because Christ teaches this too, read Dostoevsky if you don't believe me.
Yes, I do. It's the right choice AND IT ALSO gives you the moral authority to call out someone pulling a quick one to you with a whataboutism when they fuck up and pretend that you're in the wrong too so why care. Always own up. Always own up to your inadequacies, but don't dwell in them. They don't define you, but if you avoid them, someone else won't and they will call you out.
Clearly, you haven't met my traumas.
Porsche is definitely Porsche. Americans are the one's who tend to say Porsh for some reason. You got that a bit mixed up there.
Good points on the question! I like the way you described spending time with yourself and wanting to like yourself.
Porsch sounds cooler, sorry
edit: Like waaaaaay cooler tbh
@@KamikazeCommie501 It's weird to mispronounce somebody's name because you think "it sounds cooler". The man was called Ferdinand Porsche.
Uk here and I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Brit say ‘Porsche’ although I don’t hang around car-people that much
The Porsche website confirms that it should be pronounced with two syllables in German. But, as LB points out at the end, that does not mean it has to be pronounced that way elsewhere, just as indeed Peugeot and Citroen are not pronounced in English the same way as in French.
@@Cyan37 Also I actually have done that and received positive reactions. I knew a girl named Natasha and she pronounced her name with a hard A like sash and I used to say it with a longer A like mustache just because I liked it better. She never heard it like that and loved it. I think I would still use it today unless she asked me not to, but I don't know her.
edit I guess yt didn't like my first reply but my first name is Stephen which has one cool way of pronouncing and one very uncool way of pronouncing. [Censored joke here]. I'm lucky in that everyone knows which is the cool way of pronouncing it by now, so the uncool way only gets used to annoy me. It would definitely annoy me if someone thought the uncool way was the cool way. But that would just be insanity.
edit again now blogposting but I think I would actually find it extremely endearing, even if I thought it was uncool. Some things can be uncool but a sports car NEEDS to be cool. I'd call Ferdinand "Porsche" but his cars "Porsch"
A true man owns up to his mistakes and seeks forgiveness for his wrongdoings. A classic country song comes to mind "You've got to stand for something.. or you'll fall for anything.", I stand to uphold my family name and that means owning up to my mistakes and errs.
That's the easiest question, because admitting/telling the truth is cathartic, even if it's gonna lead you to trouble.
Lying/covering up, requires doing that forever in order to maintain it, and that's a total waste of your energy.
Back when I first started driving, late at night I reversed my Fiesta into a parking space I thought was empty. The reversing light on my old Fiesta might as well have been a glow worm for all the light it produced, so I missed a jet black BMW which was sitting in the parking space I thought was empty.
I grabbed my torch from my toolbox, and went to inspect the damage - the back of my Fiesta was in tatters, but the BMW didn't have a scratch on it. I still left my number on a note anyway, just in case I'd missed something. Never heard anything back from them though.
My parents were old school in that respect. We were taught and raised to own up to our mistakes and wrong-doings and to accept that there were consequences to our actions, to learn from them, and to aspire to do better.
I'm endeavoring to teach my sons the same and tried to teach the same to my daughters before they were on their own. Posterity will tell me If I was successful.
I was raised with the mentality that I could do whatever the F i wanted to as long as i was willing to own up to it and suffer the consequences
And may your sons gain from the lessons you taught them in the future.
“Always” is hard to say for sure, but I recently had a parking lot scrape for the first time at 32. I stood and waited for the owner to come out. I apologized and she didn’t want anything or my insurance.
If I want a respectful and harmonious society, I can’t be part of the problem, without being a hypocritical ass.
I try to be an upright man. It ain't easy and I don't always manage to be so but I try. Ultimately that is all any of us can hope for. As to those who just see opportunities for personal gain and view this attitude as weakness, well..
Great stuff, really enjoy these shorter book of questions videos. More I say!
I “accidentally” rear-ended a guy a few years back(he break checked me in an intersection on a green light) we both pulled over somewhere and began checking for damage, he claimed my car broke the clip of a plastic detail that ran along the back of his car holding it in place and “now it was loose”. Being a mechanic of 4+ yrs at the time I had some doubts, anyway I got my insurance info ready to exchange and they could figure it out-he quickly dismissed bringing insurance into it and asked if I would like to just pay him directly “so you insurance rates don’t go up” says he “haha bs.” thinks I. I told him I don’t carry cash but if I get his number I can cash app him whatever the cost is. He gets back to me a few days later saying it’s almost $800 in damage. I didn’t respond just blocked his number. I’m quite fine living with that decision.
On the other hand just last year I was in stop and go traffic typical bumper-to-bumper stuff and a young guy hits me not too bad but enough of a jolt to get my adrenaline pumping and my coffee spilled. Same as before we both pull off to the shoulder and before I can get to the back of my car he’s apologizing and shaking so bad I thought he was gonna drop his phone-of course he didn’t mean to hit me it was a genuine accident and he was sorry. I told him “I’m ok, you’re ok, that’s all that matters let’s just take a deep breath.” After a second of helping him get his nerves under control I said “let’s take a look and make sure the cars are ok. I couldn’t see even a dent or scratch on either, checked under both and all seemed perfectly fine. I told him if he wants to exchange info and let our insurance companies know that’s fine but I’m not worried about anything and I’m happy to call it good. He agreed and apologized again I accepted and to said not let this ruin his day. Again I’m quite fine living with that decision.
I am enjoying this question series very much, keep up the good work!
Yes. It sometimes is hard, but confidence comes from integrity!
When I was a teenager I learned a hard lesson about not leaving a note and getting caught. But the guy forgave me! That actually turned me into a better person so good on him.
Love your channel, mostly because you personify what in my mind what it means to be "British". That being said, I must remark on your pronunciation of "Porsche". It is German, and as we all know that in their language we pronounce EVERY letter, thus the long E. You are correct in that it is a girls name (pronounced with the E), I believe that it was named after the daughter of the person (who's name escapes me at the moment) who designed the vehicle. Here in 'merica, we tend to use the correct pronunciation. Thank you for being British.
Love your take in this one, gives a lot more meaning to expose someone for crappy behaviour and the line 'how can they live with themselves?' Like I don't wanna be seen as someone who leaves trash in public because I think it's crappy and also think people who do so are crappy and antisocial. Keep them coming, great content!
Yes. I always own up. I learned that at work, when I own up to my mistakes, most people will help show me where I went wrong and how I can improve in the future.
I've done the same as a manager. I will be open with my employees when I've made a mistake. As a result, when they need help or screw up, they come to me for help.
Although I don't have a Porsche, I had this done to my car, most probably also by a neighbour (can't be sure, unfortunately). No note, no nothing. Feels like sh't, so I wouldn't do it to someone else.
Generally, I started finding it much easier to accept the flawed nature of human existence and just say "mistakes were done and will continue to be done" try and correct and continue.
I wholeheartedly agree.
When we thought our kids had opened the rear door too wide, slamming a scratch into the neighbour's car, we went and told him at once. He came out, had a look and waved it off: "Could have been there for months, not worth the trouble, thanks for telling, though." When my other neighbour had his tyke crash into my car on his very first bicycle ride I was more concerned about the poor boy than the polish of my car.
When someone dented the tank of my motorbike and didn't tell, though, we had a full-blown police investigation which not only found the perpetrator out but also was far more costly to them than just ringing me up and talking it out - in time, money and trust.
Honest mistakes can always be forgiven - even a sacred oldtimer bike is just an object, after all. Damaging the trust level in an entire neighbourhood is a far bigger thing and never worth lying about or obfuscating a mistake.
Had this kind of thing happen to a friend. He borrowed his truck for a friend who was moving. Dinged the mirror and caused small crack in it. Didn't mention it, didn't ever admit to it despite it being crystal clear it was him. Like how low can you go to do that to a friend? Totally changed my view of that person. Instead of being someone I could trust he is now the possible thief in every situation. Wouldn't borrow a used napkin to that person.
As of right now and hopefully the future, I definitely own up to it as that fits in my values.
Same man. I accidentally backed into a new BMW. The damage was so small it was hard to see, like a tiny spot on the paintwork. I left a note and I half expected them to say don't worry about it. But I forgot they were BMW people, $900.
If you have ever attended life drawing classes you will notice people often draw bodies without faces!
Interesting video, thanks for posting.
It depends who i'm dealing with.
Friends and loved ones? Sure. Better to own up and apologize. Surely they'll understand that i'm not perfect and can make mistakes, and I feel that I have never done something to purposefully wrong them.
If i'm dealing with authorities? (Police, judges, the tax man, traffic wardens etc.). Hell no. Never admit fault to these people under any circumstances.
Only way to get off scot free is that they don't have sufficient evidence and are just probing you for a confession.
The American pronunciation is the correct one.
Yes, it gives you peace.
0:15 - It's a rare occasion that I am able to correct you, so I hope you sympathize why I cannot let this one go 😉: The American pronunciation is a lot closer to the original German (because that, after all, is what Ferdinand Porsche _was_ ) and hence, to be considered more correct. The "e" in the final position is almost always pronounced with a "schwa" sound in German. 😘
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I think lloyd could own up to doing wrong with regard to in search of Hannibal. One of the biggest scams ive ever lent money to and not even the courtesy to provide regular updates
Usually I like a Lindy Beige video ahead of watching it, lest I forget.
It's always easier to own up, so I do it. I see it's hard for some people though and they'll twist and turn to try and save face. Bizzare.
Ownership is akin to a muscle. When we haven't worked it out, it's incredibly hard to build up.
@@0num4 Feels like most people have convinced themselves they aren't capable, and not taking responsibility is something they were genetically born with. You'd need to go through a lot of therapy to think that screwed up!
Smashing through these questions, keep em coming
“By craftily not eating any babies” 😂
Would I leave a note?
Well, probably. I try to be honest, and vehicle collisions are always covered by compulsory insurance here anyway in Australia, so there's no reason _not_ to tell someone so that they can make a claim, get their car checked over, make sure it's not that 1-in-100 case where a bump in the car park has fractured the frame or dislodged an airbag or something. That being said, I actually have had my foot slip off the clutch once while backing, and I dinged someone's car, and then I went to find them and let them know; I was prepared for anger, sadness, or frustration, but what I got was this _weird gloating_ as if they were the ones who'd found me, with hand-rubbing and pointing and 'you're in it now!' and that just left me feeling disturbed.
On the one hand, I know I was in the wrong with the damage to their car; on the other hand, I did do the right thing in finding them and giving them my insurance thing to claim from, and from their response I gathered that I was very likely reimbursing someone who would already have hated me, whether I'd damaged their car or not, and who would _not_ have done the right thing by me if the situation had been reversed. Which stung a bit; but I suppose the right thing to do is the right thing to do, regardless of who you're doing it for.
I'm glad that you're happy living with yourself. I have to live with myself and believe me, it's hell! If I could afford the rent, I'd move out.
i dont want my note to fall into the wrong hands
As a chef, lots of little things can and do go wrong. If somebody asks about it i own up to it. If nobody asks and its not too important as to bother my boss. It goes on the waste log etc
Yes, but it depends on what the circumstances are.
If I do wrong that I can correct, if asked, I will just say there were hurdles that I had to overcome.
If I do wrong that, despite me being able to correct or not, affects others or the bottom line etc then ofc i own up to my mistakes. Unless in the very specific cases where owning up would actually make more trouble than it would solve. Because trust me, there are cases where saying something will light a fire that you can't put out. And not owning up instead prevents a disaster and if the "appropriate" parties find out later, it's already solved and they can just shut it and stay out of it.
yes, because taking responsibility of my mistakes and failures is how I grow as a human being...
also it's the decent thing to do
It depends on the country/community. I have had multiple cars dinged, scratched, or worse during my life. Nobody ever left a note, I wouldn't either . That's the game. I wouldn't lose one second of sleep over it.
My neurotic conscience keeps me from living with lies or doing something truly wrong and hiding it.
Sometimes I wish I could trade it for a more sociopathic mind without shame, but it's best this way.
I have personally always believed that if everyone owns up to their mistakes, the world would be a much better place.
Patrick Star would walk away and pretend he had never seen the damage.
I don't think you can dispute his example.
I take the middle ground approach where I'll happily admit when I'm wrong, unless doing so will mildly inconvenience somebody while ruining my finances for life.
If me admitting I scratched a Porsche and being forced to pay means I can't afford my child's hospital bill, then aren't I valuing my own perception of integrity over another's wellbeing?
It would arguably make me a narcissist.
I came out to my car and found my side mirror had been knocked off at night and there was a note with a phone number apologizing. Before I called the person I looked on eBay for a used mirror and found one for $20 and I had ordered it. Then I called the person and told them not to worry because I was taking care of it. But I wanted them to know that I appreciated that they left a note with a number. I suppose many modern cars have cameras built in and probably record the plate number, but mine was not so equipped.
In the US most folks say Porsch. In Germany of course, it's Porsch-eh. All vowels are pronounced in German. Some of us here can pronounce German words.
As Professor Walter Von Dervogelveiter said, "No matter where I go, I can't get away from me! It's sort of frightening!" And as Saint Stupid said, "No matter where you go, there you are."
Thanks for the upload dad
As you've said, humans are great at deluding themselves. Including convincing themselves they're the good guys if they commint horrible things.
So, your reasoning wasn't finished. You've simply been born and grown fortunate enough without any significant hinderances to accept or create this moral compass of yours.
One should not do the right thing because of fear of consequences but because it is right. If you only do the right thing when it is convenient or you have been already caught you are not a good person. The "no one saw", "it was dark", "no chance of getting caught" are all the things you need to to identify someone who is not trustworthy. If they do it to stranger they do it to anybody. That is how they operate.
I also try to use the most basic level of empathy. What if I was the other person? Everybody makes mistakes. Being a good person is not about doing any mistakes ever but how you deal with the mistakes when they happen. Plus I have insurance against this kind of thing. For 200€ you are off the hook no matter how bad you did.
Some people are also good at rationilizing and justifying everything. They are never in the wrong. If they do something nasty they'll just think everybody else do it too. That is projecting their own faults into everybody else and thinking everybody else is just shitty person as they are. But just because there are shitty people out there does not justify being one. Make the world better place, not worse.
Also this specific scenario is yet one more proof that our legal system is shit. The law doesn't actually require you to even leave a note. The idea there is that no one has the obligation to self-incriminate. So according to the law you can smash the other car and just drive off. As long as no one is hurt you are fucking free to go. Just another proof how broken the law and justice system is. It literally protects the thieves. If they find you then you have to pay. But you are not required to do anything as the criminal. Insane.
I Always watch your videos but lately youtube has sopped recommending them to me! Ive missed loads
Hey, Lloyd, I just wanna say I really apprreciate Your videos and also please edit and upload Your material from Poland that You once said You have a lot of :) Now that we know it's there we can't let it go. I personally am very intrigued. (The Moszna LARP doesn't count).
Once while parking in a tight lot, I scratched my front bumper on a big truck's massive wheels (they were bulging out from under the rim).
It put a huge dent but did nothing but leave a white powder mark across their rubber. I agonized whether to leave a contact note and a dollar, but after some people kept looking and it scared me off. It made me depressed for the rest of the day in class and I really expected to find a fine or notice on my car after I leave.
But there was nothing. Nothing at all.
Ever since then, I've wished I coukd go back in time and have a a conversation with the truck driver.😅
Nothing is worse than being a slave to morality. 😮
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There's a difference between blindly following morality because you've been told its right/wrong and actually ruminating on the implications/merits of morality and choosing certain acts because you deem them right/wrong on a personal level. Morality is a tool.
Total moral relativism isn't an intellectual or mature take - it's just running from responsibility/accountability.
"I don't do things that make me dislike myself".
You don't or you try not to?
I think most of us imagine we act this way but in reality we all sometimes fail. I think the bigger question is: WHEN (not 'if') you fail to live up to your own moral compass, do you accept that you failed and try to improve yourself or do you rationalise your actions in a way to make yourself feel like you didn't fail? If you can't think of a time that you did something that made you dislike yourself then you are doing the second because we all mess up from time to time.
The real test is when the event happens at a time and place where there is zero chance of it being traced back. There is the place moral dilemmas roam.
Porsche is not Porsh, and that has 0.0 to do with Americans. Greetings from Stuttgart
As to the question, if it's a Porsche Cayenne I'll put in reverse and make sure it's a proper scratch.
Tell me you did NOT watch the video to the end, without telling me you did not watch to the end
I like my Portia as much as the next guy, but is it really worth fighting over?
I've known it was Porsche since I was a kid but I'll never use it. Porsch sounds infinitely cooler, I'm sorry.
@@SuperVistaprint It's all engagement mate doesn't matter the content :)
When Lindy found this book he saw there were space for 3-4 lines to write the answers. He was like "Nah, that's not gonna fly, I'll respond in videos and write the links in the space!".
"Which americans call Porche by the way, which is a character from the merchant of venice". This is why I watch this channel, where else can you get a casual reference to shakespeare like that?
I once returned to my car to find a mirror broken off and a note left on my windshield.
All the note said was “Broke your mirror, my bad. People are watching so I’m leaving this note. Sucks to be you.”
That is bad and that guy is a nob, but it still made me laugh a bit :D
At least he said ‘bad’ and not ‘bud’ - or even ‘bro’ 😊
They do say it's easier to act like the sort of person you want people to think you are, less chance of dropping character. Mind you, some people want others to think they're AWFUL, for, you know, reasons. They may not all realize it though.
Pre-video comment: yes because idgaf there's literally no consequences society can bring to bear on me that worry me in any way plus I never do anything wrong anyway apart from make some people feel bad on the internet
Now I shall watch and update
post video comment:
I'm glad you responded that way because I wouldn't want to hear from someone who wouldn't.
Have you never experienced peer pressure? Not even in school? I remember pretending to be cooler than I was. That didn't mean I felt as cool as I acted. I was very self-conscious of that. Although now I'm cool af so maybe it was a 'fake it til you make it' thing.I wholeheartedly believe people can delude themselves into thinking they're good and put on a mask. I believe most people that regularly use social media are doing that every day. There are virtue signallers everywhere and maybe some are sincere but many are not.
Right and wrong are concepts fluid in both time and space....
I always loved your WW2 content,any chance you could do something in that vein?
It is also a question of wether you perceive your actions as wrong.
I had someone with a new car park to close to me at work, I purposely slammed my car door into his. He noticed it two days later and thought it happened 1 day ago. He blamed it on someone else. I didn't say a thing. Moral of the story, don't park to close to my crappy car.
So no, I would not leave a note.
Yes, I have. They never called me but they got the note. Saw them at the same bar like a month later and asked. They said it was minor and the guy's wife just used nail polish to fix it.
I don't drive so I can't really answer the question with the right context. As for the spirit behind the question, I don't have a consistent pattern of behaviour other than procrastination and memory loss.
"Don't be a git." That's great advice! Thanks, Lindy!
What's a git?
I've never heard anyone on my side of the pond say porsche-uh only porsche' its only your side of the pond i've heard the uh added
Assuming I am in a position to afford paying for it, I leave a note. If it came to a choice between paint on a stranger's car or food on my family's table, I'd pick the food.
I'm American I say "Porsh", my husband corrected me last week. He says "Porsche'". I don't like pronouncing the "e".
Also, to answer the question, I would leave a note, I'm a responsible adult with good insurance. It's just the right thing to do.
If my mistake can be justified I will own up to it. If you say I made a mistake and can't justify it then no, I wont.
(Looks at his PoS Micra and then the scratched Porsche) - I err plead the fifth, or the English equivalent of it.
It's called having a conscience. I don't want to spend a lot of time with stuff cluttering my conscience. I would want someone to leave me a note, so I would leave them a note.
oddly the thought to leave a note didn't occur to me til you said it, i would have been looking around franticly to find the owner of the car.
Yes , because in the long term it ends up being worse for me if I don't .
Question 50: When will the graphic novel come out?
For the same reasons, I do the right thing and teach my kids to do the same: I don't want to dislike the little humans I'm trying to teach to be respectable, likeable, dignified adults.
I don't want to think of myself as "nice" FWIW. Pleasant? Maybe. Kind? Hopefully. Responsible? That's the goal, to name a very incomplete list. Most importantly: humble, so I never think too highly of myself and can always try to improve.
I have such mixed feelings on this. My Mum bumped & scratched not even a nice car a rather mediocre one ever so slightly with a trolley. She left a note. They ended up listing & claiming 10 different things with insurance etc. Nothing even remotely to do with the scratch.
good rant bro but it's a Porsche, not a Toyota from 2010
Porsche the way Americans seem to pronounce it is also the German pronunciation, which is the correct one.
My answer is far less philosophical and probably weirdly more self cantered. I'd want someone to own up to me and make it right if I was on the receiving end, it is only fare I treat others as I would like to be treated - or rather hypocritical not to.
all this works very well in a high trust society.
Tipping is such a ridiculous thing anyway. Why do you have to pay people extra to do their job? And why are waiters and waitresses somehow more deserving than, say, a Nurse or a Teacher?
A vehicle is a mode of transport, and the appearance does not matter in regards to it's primary purpose.
0:08 it's actually Porsche, not just Porsch. It's a german brand so that's the right pronunciation. If you don't believe me than look it up.
Tell me you did not watch the video to the end, without telling me you did not watch to the end
@SuperVistaprint How did you come to that conclusion buddy ?
He's NOT German ! !
@@nemember2614 4:25 ?
porsch > porsche fite me
you encode the concept of being a git into 'damaging property and not owning up to it' which pretty well entails your conclusion. It seems entirely plausible to say a minor scrape that you don't tell a person who owns a porsche about doesn't entail being a git. also consciousness as a developed mechanism for defending our 'niceness' seems to mistake the concept of being nice (something that at least needs proof is not a social concept) as being a natural kind. Do dolphins and octopi develop consciousness for the same reason? do they have a concept of 'niceness'? making friends also seems like something that we can do *because* of our consciousness, which further makes this seem like putting the cart before the horse sort of logic.
Also, i think you can find that people who tend to delude themselves that they are kind or good or generous, even though they are not, do not tend to be seen as those things by other people. So deluding oneself into believing they are the constructs they want to be seems to suggest the opposite of your claim (granted, without much evidence here, but hey you're using anecdotal evidence yourself so just engaging in a similar way).
Its so frustrating having to be honest for the sake of that git that lives in my brain and doesnt approve of selfishness
If it's not serious then I might play it off or jokingly blame someone else. And Again depending on what it is I prolly wont be begging for forgiveness but I always take it on board as something to never do again
I'd probably just not write anything and leave
I might write something if I didn't think the damage was too expensive but some Paint options on German cars are very expensive and require the whole car to be resprayed for just small scratches and I'd rather not go into debt over minor paint damage
For me it depends on how they were parked.
If they are within the lines then I feel I probably would own up to it as it was my fault and I'd have a hard time rationalising it as not being so. They're also more likely to be reasonable as well since they took the time to do things properly.
If they are outside the lines though I likely wouldn't as I would see it as their fault for not parking correctly. I also feel like they wouldn't be reasonable either and milk the heck out of it, seeing it as an opportunity to send you the bill for other things that weren't my fault. After all if they won't take the extra minute to think of others by parking properly then why would I expect them to care about me.
A famous poem by Edgar Guest I thought fitting:
I have to live with myself and so
I want to be fit for myself to know.
I want to be able as days go by,
always to look myself straight in the eye;
I don’t want to stand with the setting sun
and hate myself for the things I have done.
I don’t want to keep on a closet shelf
a lot of secrets about myself
and fool myself as I come and go
into thinking no one else will ever know
the kind of person I really am,
I don’t want to dress up myself in sham.
I want to go out with my head erect
I want to deserve all men’s respect;
but here in the struggle for fame and wealth
I want to be able to like myself.
I don’t want to look at myself and know
I am bluster and bluff and empty show.
I never can hide myself from me;
I see what others may never see;
I know what others may never know,
I never can fool myself and so,
whatever happens I want to be
self respecting and conscience free.
I never own up without evidence
Me too. If its minor fault. I know its wrong but its the truth.
u just did
No, hell no.
Western culture is based on not showing weakness and backing down, otherwise they will feed on you.
Even when you demonstrate to someone that they are wrong on the internet they will never admit it, the best you can do is demonstrate to onlookers that you have won and hope they will recognise it. 💪
As someone who knows how "Porsche" is actually supposed to be pronounced (the German pronunciation), I can assure the British pronunciation isn't any better than the American one. In fact, one can argue the American pronunciation is slightly better - depending on whether they manage to get the end bit right, i.e. not saying "Porscha" instead of "Porsche".
I will not do it.