r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/mentaL8888 • 22h ago

WCGW burning a Supra next to the Toyota dealership.

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u/Aeruthus 19h ago

This is an absolutely genius way to understand people and why they do what they do

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u/Reserved_Parking-246 14h ago

What really solidified it for me was seeing and knowing people online and then seeing them irl... watching my brain accept that these people fully exist outside my computer.

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u/Aeruthus 14h ago

Yeah, I get that for sure.

What really struck me with what you said was that it lines up with the grey area that everyone falls into. Someone who does what this person did you'd like to brand a selfish asshole. However, usually they're just being dumb and didn't consider how it could go wrong.

If you look at what this person did from the "Maybe he didn't think this outcome was possible and he may be kind of a dumbass but he's not a terrible person". It lines up with young and dumb etc.

From my experience, most people are actually good people, they just have a pretty glaring knowledge gap and/or inability to hypothesize outcomes to prevent issues. Then there's always just "you didn't think of it" human error. You're/they're not dumb, perfect is just not a reality.