Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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This is called "pursuit of happiness".
They are doing and saying things that make them happy. Things that have zero practical effect on you, dear OP.
When you see people enjoying things that confuse you, yet cause no harm to you or to anyone, the only acceptable course of action is for you to walk away.
Feel free to roll your eyes, but make sure you bite your tongue as you depart.
If someone is delusional, affirming that delusion is actively harmful. That is why ChatGPT leads to mental breakdowns. What do you want me to do? Say "you're absolutely right, you actually are a zebra fish"? Because I won't. Saying stuff like that is actively harmful. And I won't tolerate being called a bigot because I refuse to go along with an adult's game of make believe
They aren't delusional. You said so yourself:
You know they aren't delusional. You know this is a game. You know they are playing. They are LARPing.
What you are doing is roughly comparable to seeing a group of people playing a board game in a public park and deciding that you should sweep the board off the table. There's plenty of other tables available for you; they aren't doing a fucking thing to cause you any sort of harm. You could just mind your own fucking business and walk past them. You're free to silently judge them as you do so. But no, you're hell bent on interfering with other people just because you don't like the way they choose to enjoy themselves.
What the hell is wrong with you?
I feel like I was pretty fucking clear on that point:
They aren't doing anything to you. They are enjoying themselves. You're trying to interfere with their enjoyment. You're interfering with their pursuit of happiness with no justification.
You're pretending like you have some sort of agency in the decision. You don't! As soon as you opened your mouth and started spouting bigotry, you didn't just tolerate it: You invited the designation.
If you don't want to be called a bigot, you don't actually have to change any of your bigoted opinions. If you don't want to be called a bigot, you do have to keep your bigotry to yourself.