What if i had no thoughts or opinions or beliefs and i lived my life like some mindless souless slug feeding on the detritis of life?
what if i just followed the trends with no free will, what if i just went along with everybody else and had no thoughts of my own,
What if
I don’t think it’s an issue how you decide to live your life until your opinions or beliefs come in contact with others. Saying that. Supposed everyone thought the way you do? Gawd. I couldn’t imagine anything more horrible. I do like difference in people and would hate if everyone thought like me.
I second @rogueone
maybe we should keep our opinions tto ourself/ idk why people get all tied up over what someone says, its would be ok to protest if it was really bad or offensive if it was bad but apart from that i dont see the harm, constructive critisism, meaningful debate, challenging thoughts? whats so bad about that? it is supposed to strengthen peoples thoughts and attitudes isnt it?
You should follow your conscience and reason, not the opinions of the masses, always seeking to improve yourself.
Plato said that we shouldn’t be prideful but thank others when we get refuted because we get freed from error.
very wise @zeno
do you like the idea of trying to strengthen others?
You could live life as just an experience for good or bad? Thats what I tend to do.
Go with the flow.
Lifes too short to have intense beliefs.
Its good to have some form of moral guidelines though.
Like if we are all just respectful of one another, life goes so much more smoothly.
depends on how you are taught and your environment growing up, who you interact with etc, not everyone is programmed to do good, i was told a while ago that we are all born bad, what do you think?
not sure what you mena by this
I think were all born innocent. then we get shaped by our environment.
There are a lot of different theories about it mostly written by psych docs like Freud and others about early development
yep thats why there called theories lol
yeah but i’m just saying if people are not taught the proper p’s and Q’s then its up to other people like me and you to call them out, probably works better on dare i say it? ‘normal people’
I guess, if you feel its your call to try and teach people values then thats great.
For me I got enough of my own stuff to deal with to teach anyone lol
Yes, it is our duty to try to help others and free them from errors. It can only end well, either we are right and we free them or we are wrong and they free us from our error. 
That is my belief too… I believe all people are born bad and will do bad things in the right circumstances but i also see now that a lot of people try to do good things even if that is the case. But i find it hard to trust people because of this though
Very well put, I try and trust people to ‘do the right thing’ I need to have hope in people and i think we all have to encourage each other to do good things too 
Sometimes the mind gets trapped by thoughts or disorders or whatever it is. But, we dont have to be. We can change. We can change our mood. Step by step. Tommorrow is a new day.
are we bad people bc of mental illness, i have always thought this deep down but it is a hard thing to answer, personally i try to do good now but when i was ill i was like a broken record, i didnt do any good when i was ill 
just was in torment and it was awful, mental illness is a complete waste of time i wish i could have flipped a switch and turned it off
You would be very bored, if you just went along with everything. People are very different.
some people like to follow the crowd, its just life, not sure if it is a good thing or a bad thing, i think we should all be allowed to freely express what we are thinking as long as it is appropriate, and whats appropriate should not be determined by us mere mortals though lol