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 I don't know what I'm getting at! Maybe you'd "help" your poor needy neighbor by voluntarally giving them even more money, since that's the help they need most.

Maybe you would deport your neighbor for funsies.

Or maybe you would just prefer that the government stop giving your neighbor welfare checks using your money against your will.

All of these are unflattering hypotheses that I wrote up in my own words. I get a lot of dopamine from thinking mean things about other people, but if it was just that then I wouldn't need to talk with you at all! Similarly, I don't need your help at all for coming up with or "proving" my own beliefs.

Really the reason I'm talking with you is because I'm curious to test my hypotheses. I genuinely don't know ehat kind of response you would give to my question, and I certainly don't know how you would present it.

I highly doubt you would present your own beliefs in an overtly unflattering way, so that only makes me more interested to hear what you may actually end up saying.

I apologize for the wall of text. Do you have anything more specific you want to ask me? I don't mind if you think I'm retarded. But I would love to help you if you are interested in figuring out WHY I seem so retarded to you, and what thought processes I went though to come to the retarded appearing conclusions that I did. I'm a big fan of the golden rule if you couldn't tell.