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How about the toxicity of attacking positivity? This world has WAY too much negativity right now and it's downright harmful to human psyche. People are freaking

How about the toxicity of attacking positivity? This world has WAY too much negativity right now and it's downright harmful to human psyche. People are freaking giving up on the world and deciding that they should never have children because they think they'd just be bring them into a doomed world. That's when you know negativity has gone so far. Some toxic positivity on the odd occasion to counteract the nonsensical rampant toxic negativity is fine with me. It's gotten amazingly ridiculous. People are even cheering for good things to fail now out of some kind of warped jealousy. And no, for those who thought this, I didn't read the article.

Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
- cpill 4y ago
  - moron4hire 4y ago
  - Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
- t-3 4y ago
  > That's the reason they give when they are put a microphone in their face, in reality humans are pleasure utility maximizers, if you cannot extract any advantage out of kids then it's only natural that people won't have them. Exactly. I know that having kids ruined my mother's life and trapped my parents in an unfulfilling relationship. Why would I want to waste my life raising kids, when it leads to misery (scientifically proven!) and requires so much money and time?
  - kbelder 4y ago
    >when it leads to misery (scientifically proven!) 1. I have kids (n=4) 2. I'm not miserable. In fact, the opposite. Myth Busted!
    - t-3 4y ago
      Great example of toxic positivity!
HyprMusic 4y ago
You're exhibiting the exact behaviour that you're chastising by negatively focusing on points the article didn't even make. The article promotes genuine positivity and human emotion whilst considering the circumstances of those around you. Please take a second to read the HN guidelines if you genuinely want to make HN (and the world) a more positive and constructive place: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- darkerside 4y ago
  In their defense, the headline was a pretty good summary of the article
donthellbanme 4y ago

Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago

cpill 4y ago
- moron4hire 4y ago
- Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
t-3 4y ago
> That's the reason they give when they are put a microphone in their face, in reality humans are pleasure utility maximizers, if you cannot extract any advantage out of kids then it's only natural that people won't have them. Exactly. I know that having kids ruined my mother's life and trapped my parents in an unfulfilling relationship. Why would I want to waste my life raising kids, when it leads to misery (scientifically proven!) and requires so much money and time?
- kbelder 4y ago
  >when it leads to misery (scientifically proven!) 1. I have kids (n=4) 2. I'm not miserable. In fact, the opposite. Myth Busted!
  - t-3 4y ago
    Great example of toxic positivity!

HyprMusic 4y ago

You're exhibiting the exact behaviour that you're chastising by negatively focusing on points the article didn't even make. The article promotes genuine positivity and human emotion whilst considering the circumstances of those around you. Please take a second to read the HN guidelines if you genuinely want to make HN (and the world) a more positive and constructive place: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

darkerside 4y ago
In their defense, the headline was a pretty good summary of the article

donthellbanme 4y ago