Friday List: Baffling Human Things

Oh look! It's time for another Friday List!

THINGS I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT OTHER HUMANS

1. WHY DO WOMEN WANT TO DATE MEN IN PRISON?
   
   It seems that menz in prison get tons of letters from women who are their fans. Not just a few letters, TONS of them. Women who fall in love with these guys. And I'm not talking about the ones who just shoplifted or whatever. I'm talking about hardcore-killed-lots-of-people-usually-other-women-and-left-them-in-bloody-messes.
   
   Why? What could possibly be the appeal of someone who A. Will never have a job because he'll always be in prison (hopefully) and B. IS KILLYPANTS?
   
2. WHY DO MEN IN PRISON WANT TO BE INTERESTED IN WOMEN WHO WANT TO DATE THEM?
   
   Okay, sure there is the angle of "ohh, I can manipulate these women" and the idea of "hey, I'm in prison and bored." However, when you think about this for more than, oh, three minutes, it gets creepy as hell.
   
   Think about it, if you were a fairly scary and socially undesirable person, wouldn't you be somewhat concerned that people were seeing you as HOT?  What kind of people, what level of mental and emotional damage are they drinking to do that?  Scary.
   
3. WHY DO ALL HUMANS THINK THEY ARE THE ENLIGHTENED ONES?
   
   If you listen to liberal people, they will tell you how enlightened their world view is and how the other people are just being manipulated by their upbringing and the media. If you talk to conservatives, they will tell you they are the enlightened ones and everyone else is just being manipulated by the educational system and the media.
   
   Any given group of religious people think they know the Truth, that everyone else should "wake up" to the Truth. I've seen religious people believe that not just about their religion versus others, but their specific branch of it versus others, down to their own PERSON versus others. Specifically, they are the one enlightened, there to tell everyone else the Truth.
   
   And before you think I'm just picking on religious people, take that last paragraph and sub anything else into it. Philosophy, political perspective, intellectual reasoning, knowledge of music, belief in magic, science, medicine. ANYTHING. They know best. Because they DO. They read books and watched shows and have tons of articles and went to the secret meetings and have the decoder rings and THOUGHT about this more and all that stuff.
   
   Yup, everyone of them.

Okay, so that list was only three things. But you got some good rant along with it. I'm working on a larger, medical related post, but it's cumbersome and I need refs for it. Might end up being a two parter.