Unpopular Opinion
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How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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This reads more like a complaint about capitalism, and not on the people making suggestions on other people’s posts. i.e. you’re using a straw man fallacy to argue against capitalism by using people giving advice to others as the vehicle.
But, giving you the benefit of the doubt here, I’d like to point out that people are social by nature. We thrive on some form of interconnectedness with other people. We also like to help others, if we can. So it stands to reason that if we see someone having similar troubles to us, we will reach out and offer suggestions that we’ve found to be successful (yes, to ourselves). And unless the poster simply wants to rant, without seeking guidance for their situation, they should clearly set that expectation in their posts. Another solution that’s worked for me in the past (😉) is to ignore advice that I feel is irrelevant and move on.
I don't think I'm using a straw man to argue against capitalism. I think I'm using the assumption that capitalism is the main problem to argue against a straw man.
Also, there's a difference between offering remedies on a forum where that's expected and responding to a meme about how there's not enough time in the day with your personal rigid schedule for everything. I'm talking about the latter though I might not have expressed it very clearly.
Regardless of intention, thank you for taking the time to give me a thoughtful response. While I was not trying my come off as attacking you for your post, I would have understood if you had taken it that way. And if I did offend you, I offer my sincerest apologies. 😊