I tend toward a hopeful belief, not that human nature is inherently good, but that it is malleable, and under suitable circumstances and institutions, can in practice be good. 1/

Just how differently humans behave on x.com compared to almost how I've experienced them almost anywhere else should be a confirmative data point: bad institution, bad behavior! 2/

Nevertheless I have to confess that, at a level of intuition, perusing X pushes me toward a hopeless (and I still think false!) sense that we humans are inherently awful, perhaps irredeemable. 3/

I'm grateful to all of you here, who for all of our squabbles, are really just great. /fin