Comment by Ethan Elliot on The Villainess Hides Her Wealth - Chapter 15

@Ethan Elliot You know, everyone behaves like that actually. Some are just smarter than others in assessing usefulness and hiding their ulterior motives (even to themselves). You truly never keep close to you people you deemed useless or harmful, just for the sake of the kindness in you heart...Unless, plot twist, you keep 'em close precisely to claim this kindness bullshit so they aren't totally useless then, are they ?

There's also some irony in the fact the more astute people when it comes to social interactions, are appreciated and prefered over the more "crass" let's call it, despite the former being hypocrites while the later are more honest.

@TotallyAbsurd as the kind of person who has moved from one place to another, I can tell you that having that "one person" or that "one neighbor" is important. You can call it ulterior motives, but it's much like a rabbit cannot live without company, you cannot just assimulate into a community without finding a doorway. If you're not at least willing to search that hard, you'll be stuck a loner that only talks to people when you need them. Finding friends in a new community is a pain-in-the-A**, but if you get close to just a single person, even if it's not for friendship, you can easily become friends with others. I still remember getting close to the neighborhood wierdo, just to become friends with the person who walked up to me and whispered "hey, isn't he a little nuts?" we had DEFINITELY found a common ground 🤣

@TotallyAbsurd yeah why would you keep someone around who is a detriment to yourself or whose relation to you provides no value to you? How would you connect to that person or establish a meaningful relationship? If you and another person have a superficial relationship that relationship doesn't benefit either of you and would come off as fake and existing only due to social obligation. All social interactions are a trade. That trade could be deep and meaningful, superficial, or a detriment to one or more parties involved. We much therefore evaluate our relationships and determine which ones bring us positive impacts and which are negative and adjust them as we deem them so. That's how we build healthy relationships or get trapped in self destructive patterns.

@Jake my reply to this is simple: there are animals that actually die without social interaction, no I'm not joking.

For more details, rabbits are, of course, the most well known case of this, but chimps have been known to do it as well. You can provide them with everything they need to survive and they will still die due to a lack of interaction.

Human studies into this had to be canceled mid way, as the month long isolation study started to show signs of schitzophrenia and a drastic increase in suicidal tendencies at 2 weeks -_- Individuals such as ourselves use the computer to stave off isolation, take a walk even if we don't talk to people, etc. In the study, they were trapped in a concrete cell with nothing but a toilet and a bed. They were fed bland tasting food and water 3 times a day through a small slot in the door and there was NO light. The result of the study was a ban on prison isolation punishments longer than 2 weeks and they always had to have a light and a window.