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.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Being apathetic towards someone's suffering doesn't mean I'm cheering for it, that's just psychopathic. However, I'm not going to lose any sleep worrying about your sister's situation. If she needed help (and would accept it), that'd be different, but it sounds like she won't. I'm sorry to hear about her situation, though.
That said, if she was my sister, rather than a random stranger, I'd be a lot more invested, so I can empathize with your situation, wanting to help her but being unable to reasonably do so.
I also won't claim I don't experience schadenfreude when I read an article about someone who (for instance) voted against their self-interests being negatively affected by the result of that action, but I'd still prefer that nobody was put into that situation in the first place.
Yeah that schadenfreude and specifically that quote of saying specifically about voting. That smug apathy where you giggle at other people's misfortune because they might have had it coming is the one that horrified me and I think is the unpopular opinion I have.
No. That's gross. It makes you seem dishonest.
If a person gets pushback and punishment for what they have done that's fine but people just living a life where they generally get hurt and it's excused away as a location or ideology that makes it ok to point and giggle? An actual after the fact giggle is fine but this is searching for it and self serving. I just think it paints people ugly.
Ah, got it, I misunderstood what you were saying initially, I think.
I certainly don't giggle at other peoples' misfortune... but in the voting instance, I certainly don't feel bad for them.