Is complacency. Humanity is complacent with far too many shortcomings. I noticed this today while making the 5 hour drive out to Tryon, North Carolina ([b]Middle of nowhere:[/b] [i]Mountain Edition[/i] for those of you who have never been here before) through two major incidents.
The first came up after about 3 hours of driving, I was about ready for some lunch. I pulled into the drive-through of the first Bojangles I found, and got in line. But it was slow. Very slow. In fact, I spent 10 minutes waiting to even pay for my order. And when I finally paid? Another 5 minutes till the drink came out, with another 3 minutes for my food.
Now, I'm not normally one to concern myself over time like this, but what really burnt me was the fact that they got almost everything wrong with my order, and it was a simple order. I got a sandwich, they gave me a biscuit, I asked for sweet tea, they gave me diet cherry Coke. I asked for two small fries, they gave me a medium and a small. It was just impossible. But people still lined up, and still got their food. The workers there didn't do anything to change what they had already started, it was just complacency of mediocrity all around.
But that was just the first one, and it was a minor, common occurrence in America. The next was in regards to a fellow who probably killed someone today. As I was driving along a little after this first incident, a truck with two ladders on it hit a bump, and lost the smaller of the two ladders. It fell, right in the middle of my lane, and it wasn't a small plastic ladder. I immediately turned my hazard lights on, slowed down, and calmly moved to the next lane, since there was plenty of space to do so. But the car behind me was a dick, and just sped past me, only to swerve just in time to avoid catching the ladder straight on. Metal went flying everywhere, and the truck behind the dick who sped past me had to swerve too.
And as for the guy who lost his ladder? I caught up with him later, and took a look at who it was that just ignored what happened. It was some 20-something-year-old guy who looked so very guilty. My question is, why was he complacent with just letting the guilt eat him up? Why didn't he pull over, and try to at least pull the ladder out of the road? Debris on the road is a top killer in the United States for automobile drivers. And he just let his entire ladder sit there, around a bend, in the left lane (passing lane) where it will probably end up killing someone.
Do you agree, that complacency is our greatest flaw?
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Humanity's greatest sin is cancelling Firefly.
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we all are
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Good read as always
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I think our biggest flaw is that when someone tells us not to do something for our own sake, we want to do it.
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I would think are biggest flaw is that we can die.
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Complacency keeps the incompetent busy while the competent build the future.
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Women.
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I thought it was greedy. The inability to put away profit in the course of improving humanity as a whole.. Like having cheap and fast internet..
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There seems to be no sense of urgency, no sense of accountability, and yet somehow, a complete sense of entitlement, in my humble observations.
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or better yet, why didn't YOU pull over and pick up the ladder?
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It was pretty complacent to leave it in the road ;) In all seriousness, I don't think it's complacency, it's laziness and an overly large sense of self importance. Those two combined are the worst.
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No, our greatest flaw is our existance.
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I agree, with you OP 100%. I actually had a similar occurrence with your second story. I was driving my truck fully loaded with gear and a trailer with a bunch of work stuff on it (was coming back from a relief project for some homes). I was just in the right lane going 65 and this car pulls up next to me and the passenger goes crazy trying to get my attention, and she was pointing frantically to the trailer behind me. So as soon as I realize what she's trying to do, I look back in my side mirror and I see one of the lawn chairs we had fly off the trailer and into the highway. Luckily it rolled out of the lane, but if that lady hadn't gotten my attention, I would have been completely oblivious to the whole thing. I pulled over and had to walk back to get the chair (walking on the interstate was interesting). So my point was that maybe the driver in the van didn't know that the ladder fell off, because it's very possible. I wouldn't have seen the chair falling off if it weren't for the other car that got my attention.
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People just don't make posts longer than 4 lines. Do you expect us shitheads to read it if we spell like dis¿ Dat be all
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Greatest flaw is chronic selfish dickhead syndrome. So many good or neutral things used for ill because of this. What a shame
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ignorance is our *GREASTST FLAW*, ingorance ..
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Hey I'm ganna test something out so just ignore me[spoiler]I said ignore me[/spoiler] [spoiler]-blam!- o.o did they censor it?[/spoiler]
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I believe discontentment is the greatest human flaw. It is one of those things that either be boon or bane though. It is both the mother of all invention and the destroyer of worlds. Interesting thought isn't it?
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nah, it's greed.
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TL;DR- Servers at a fastfood joint were slow and didn't do anything to change that, then some asshole on the road had a ladder fall off his car and he didn't do anything about it, even though it was large enough to cause a wreck and kill someone.
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I don't believe we have a flaw that surpasses another. Nor do I believe we can ever be corrected.
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Nah pretty sure it's greed.
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TLDR, Coles notes?
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Complacency can be an issue, but I'd say humanity's greatest flaw is intolerance.
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Yes, and by extension religion.