Unpopular Opinion

unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

9,605 readers

2,911 active

9 users here now

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/

founded 3 years ago

moderators

JonsJava@lemmy.world

technopagan@lemmy.world

Dremor@lemmy.world

If "No one owes you anything," then you also owe nothing to a society that works against you, including allegiance, civility, or pacifism. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago* by AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

92 comments fedilink hide all child comments

A society in which it's everyone for themselves, that refuses to care for one another, is no society at all. Then everyone acts shocked and horrified at someone who understandably snaps, like modern western culture doesn't run entirely on schadenfreude.

That was the crux of the idea of a social contract, which is long dead in the US. Now people line up to revel in the suffering of their fellow citizens with "well you were stupid to do xyz in life, so you deserve your suffering haha."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 years ago (6 children)

But if you just stop and look you'll find good people in this fight with you.

This appears to be the sum total of your argument, and doesn't really address his statement of the social contract being broken. Just because some "good" people remain doesn't mean the majority haven't been pushed by the system to something worse.

I'd also like to advise you just how arrogant your statements here are:

And giving up on them is not something I'm going to do ... OP is (imo) misguided, but that doesn't make them a bad person and it doesn't mean they're beyond hope. ... Simply misguided but not even close to being beyond redemption or belief.

So, you think your outlook is so superior that it grants you the authority to not only judge them as misguided but further imply that they are so wrong as to require redemption? Oh, but by the sheer goodness of your heart you still grant them the gift of your hope.

This is called toxic positivity. You are using the notion of positivity in a negative way: it is a tool to assert your moral superiority and thereby belittle others.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 6 child comments