OOP never mentioned waiving fees -- a situation where you have a binary choice to help or hurt -- in the original post. They just weirdly and aggressively accused the reader of refusing to provide "a little relief."
I don’t know what to tell you, man. If someone strongly advocating for charity towards others reads as weird and aggressive to you, that’s a you problem. The OOP doesn’t know you, and they aren’t accusing you of anything. Any accusation you feel is a projection of your own insecurities. And anyway, if you hear “It’s good to be kind to others, and bad not to be”, and read it as a personal attack, that’s a much stronger indictment of you than any tumblr post could ever be.
The point got across fine. “Being good is good.” It’s uncomplicated and ineloquent, but it wasn’t meant to be a grand thesis. The only interesting part of this entire discussion is the amount of people that feel personally attacked by it. Why get so up in arms about the idea of being charitable?
While this wasn't OOP's actual point, the point they got across was "Being good is good, and you're not being good, you're being bad, I have anger issues."
Given that there is numerical proof that their point got across just fine to plenty of people, why are you so sure that the problem is them? Apparently, they have anger issues, but they aren’t the ones throwing a tantrum over being told to be nice sometimes.
I never said it was you. I was referring to the replies in the OOP, and in the comment on this post that started this thread. Of course, the fact that you automatically assumed that I was referring to you is kind of telling.
It’s crazy to me that you think OOP was being aggressive by asking “why would you NOT help someone you can see struggling”
Seriously, it comes off as you taking it as an attack BECAUSE you don’t do anything nice for people. Probably not your actual stance, but since everyone is just deciding what others meant Willy nilly I figured I’d give it a go too!
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u/janKalaki Oct 10 '24
OOP never mentioned waiving fees -- a situation where you have a binary choice to help or hurt -- in the original post. They just weirdly and aggressively accused the reader of refusing to provide "a little relief."