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You're comparing the civil war to people texting each other on social media. Nobody has ever gone to actual war over personal opinions about cars, phones or co
by wayneftw 6y ago
You're comparing the civil war to people texting each other on social media.
Nobody has ever gone to actual war over personal opinions about cars, phones or computers.
- noman-land 6y agoPeople routinely destroy cities when sports teams win or lose. Get in brawls because someone is wearing the wrong color. The list goes on. Of course it's not the same, but the kernel of otherizing remains.
- wayneftw 6y agoOK, but nobody has ever destroyed a city over opinions about technology, among many, many other things that people argue about online such as favorite celebrity, music, cars, etc. Just because you can cherry pick a couple of examples of people destroying things over their opinions, that doesn’t mean anybody’s going to actual war and it doesn’t mean that having opinions or even arguing about them is bad in general. It’s human nature. I get the point though - being less opinionated can be good and if you find that you’re better without them then I support that. I have sometimes wished to go live on an island or in a cave myself, to escape the constant culture war but instead I just turn off my Internet devices. Most days I just wade through it to find the stuff I agree with.