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you... don't... go there. This isn't a hard concept. I don't willingly walk into a mine field, but some people do. I'd totally accompany them if I also had any
by grayhatter 5y ago
you... don't... go there.
This isn't a hard concept. I don't willingly walk into a mine field, but some people do. I'd totally accompany them if I also had any of the dozens of mine detecting, or detonating tools, vehicles.
You may have a moral obligation to stop people from being hurt, but you have no moral obligation to stop people who willingly choose to be hurt, or accept the risk it.
You are in control of the media you consume online. If you don't like the online community standards, leave and block that community. Or develop the equivalent of mine detection or explosive resistance coping mechanisms for verbal for visual abuse. Before you walk into the communities that permit hostility.
- md8z 5y agoI've already been doing that for decades and I hope you can understand how it's impractical to do that. Social media has network effects, that's the whole purpose for it to exist and some people just expect you to meet them where they're at.
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoThen don't engage with them.
- grayhatter 5y agoI totally understand that. I consider myself fortunate enough to have learned to ignore it while a teenager (thanks "I'm Offended", if you know, you know :D). That's not to say things don't bother me, or that there's no one living in my head rent free right now. Only that ignoring vast the majority of things I don't like is a learnable skill. Such that I can safely visit any website I want without worrying about it running my day, or causing other psychological harm.