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Originally Posted by Poiuytl
Many computer programmers rely so much on logic that they become a constant provocation to "normal" people, who act according to prefabricated thought patterns and very seldom logical.
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People hated me
long before I learned how to program.
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Originally Posted by Poiuytl
Often, in my experience, computer programmers become computer programmers because they prefer interaction with computers, because in many ways computers are like very kind, infinitely patient people.
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I program computers because they make sense; their output logically results from the input. You can't say that about people; There is no connection between how one acts toward them and what behavior one gets in return. One could be the nicest person to someone yet still get slugged with a baseball bat by that same person.
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Originally Posted by Poiuytl
Have you ever considered that you are intrinsically different from "normal" people, like Spock from Kirk, with the only difference that you are an abused kind of Spock? Maybe it's only the fact that he had an empowering upbringing that allows Spock to raise an eyebrow and say "fascinating", when attacked.
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No matter how "different" I am, it doesn't make me inhuman, and it doesn't make me deserve the treatment I receive.
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I'm sorry if I'm projecting. I must say I find your style and phraseology quite amenable, and also convincing, as if I could like you. I don't think I would ever punch you.
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How is my "phraseology" different from others?
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Maybe the convincingness comes from the fact that your world of experience is a system - you see the logic in your abuse, and it becomes inescapable.
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The only way to understand the world is through logic, and the systematic breaking down the whole into its constituent parts. Our knowledge of science stems from this.
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The Fundamental Problem you have with People - is it that they have an illogical behaviour? Or is it more like an illogical logic they follow?
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Their refusal to use logic and their tendency to wallow in emotion makes them behave nearly like animals. They literally
enjoy being out of control, and they don't care who they harm in being so. It is their refusal to use logic that makes them see me under a cloud of fear and hate, instead of the obviously harmless person I am.