On the subject of shows that depict the darkness in the hearts of humans... Shows like 闇金ウシジマくん, Black Mirror and more recently, Girl from Nowhere... I really enjoy watching these messed up shows, but it's more than a little disconcerting how realistic some of these depictions are. I suppose that's the whole point of these shows, though, so they're doing really well in fulfilling their purpose.

Human nature is so scary.

That's the one thing that comes to mind when I watch these shows. I tried to write more, but the words just don't come out properly. I think it's a little too deep of a concept for my tiny brain to attempt to put into words.

I'm already fairly scared of people as is, but these shows really make it worse. You can never really tell when someone you trust will suddenly betray you and throw you under the bus to save their own hide, just like in these shows. Of course, you can't possibly healthily live life being in fear of these situations that might not even happen to begin with, but they do make you think: Humans truly are the scariest animal out there. It's made even worse by how intelligent and self conscious we are.

It makes me fear for myself as well, though not quite in the way you would think.

How can I be so sure on which side of the spectrum I stand? As someone sitting in the comfort of my home and watching these characters do terrible things that I wouldn't even dream of doing, how can I confidently say that when I'm in the same situation, I wouldn't make the same choices as these fictional characters? It's easy to say "I wouldn't do that", but how can you be so sure? We're generally in our rooms, comfortably sat in front of a screen, or maybe on a train traveling to our next destination. We're only exposed to their world and their situations for at most maybe a few hours at a time. How can we truthfully say that we would never do these terrible things when we're not faced with the same stressful conditions that some of these characters have to put up with?

Maybe we should be thankful that we're not in those same situations, and we will probably never have to be faced with the same dilemmas.

... I think I'm just overthinking this, though. I should just enjoy the shows for what they are: fiction.