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Counter-advice: never suffer in silence. Don't keep quiet when there's help available.

• est31 5y ago
  Definitely, these two things are about two different kinds of statement though. One which directly affects you, where voicing will dramatically improve your situation. The second type of statement is where you discuss something as a hobby, which might not affect you or your close ones, and where you are under informed, and have little to gain personally, while running the full risk of offending someone.
  • hathawsh 5y ago
    Agreed, but it seems to take a lot of maturity to know the difference. Very few kids know the difference and some adults never learn.
    • SamBam 5y ago
      There's a reason why "...and the wisdom to know the difference" is the end of the serenity prayer. In the end it's the crux of the whole thing. Is [X terrible thing] something that's like the weather, something that it's useless to yell at? Or is it something like climate change, also nearly useless to yell at, but with enough fighting and unity we could actually make a difference? And the answer for any really difficult question is going to be an hard one, no pithy saying will tell it to you. (Though, agreed, far too much shouting is of the irrelevant, angry, useless kind.)