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Amusing and insightful article on what jerks we are.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19177_5- ... rself.html

I do not think I am nice.
And: It might be better not to be nice in many situations. Or to make a point of being not-nice (in an innocent way), because otherwise some unwanted admirer who will not take a no for an answer (because in his culture women have no brains and do not know what they want) will get on your nervers.

We are attracted to some people and repelled by other people. This is unconscious. Our whole life experience participates in this decision. We express our attitude unconsciously too, by the tone of the voice and other signals.
We cannot really control it.
The best we can do is to remain polite. The message is then: I do not like you at all but I make an effort to be polite because I want to belong to a civilized society and I expect you to do the same.

Who is going to cast the first stone on me ?

Everyone has different criteria for being put off.
One of mine is ... motorcycle !
That´s why I would avoid Brad Pit, because he likes them.
No kidding.

most interesting. We are all racist crackpots despite how much politically correct tolerance dressing we apply to our public or even private views.

It's time we joined Nietzsche in being true to our nature and sweep all the weak, unable and petty law wanters aside and project humanity to it's full potential.

A racist uses racial characteristics as his criteria. I do not do this. Brad Pit is the same race as me, but it is his love for some unbearable vehicle which makes me avoid his kind.

This does not have to be a drama. People can even be married to someone like this, provided they hide the allergic objects from the spouse.
For example the husband can hide his motorcycle, his garden dwarfs, his pornographic material and the like in the shed in the garden or in the basement, whereas the wife can hide her French novels in her wardrobe (because her husband happened to have a terrible French teacher - like Maurice Renault in the novel "Mailman" - and is allergic to this languange) and refrain from reading him lovely passages from French novels at tea.