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Peer Pressure (Azul Crescent's silly scribbles) (lemmus.org)

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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

But the whole premise is flawed. Having to "blame" someone for your own decisions is always a sign of not exactly being in control of yourself and your life. It's always a sign of not being exactly mentally fit. Because this action in itself is a sign that you don't take responsibility for your own actions, but instead look for someone else to blame your decision on.

I would argue that children and teenagers are generally susceptible to this while being perfectly developmentally healthy (though of course, not fully mature). It’s great that you weren’t susceptible to those pressures, but many others are at those ages, and that’s not indicative of any mental weakness. Susceptibility to peer pressure is a helpfully adaptive trait in many ways (it goes a long way towards making people generally more hygienic and friendly, for example), it’s just value neutral for people who aren’t yet good at predicting the long-term consequences of their decisions.

I don't see OOP doing that in the cartoon. She takes responsibility for her own actions. "I peer pressured myself". She realized the mechanism at play (she wanted to fit in, and thus did something she actually didn't want to do) and took responsibility for it. She's not looking for blame anywhere at all.

In the cartoon, no, but the OP of this thread phrased it a little more actively. I don’t have a problem with it and think it was chosen for comic effect (successfully, imo), but I think that’s what your parent commenter was responding to.