I think it’s pretty close to their true objection, more like “you want to include this in your moral circle of concern but I’m still suffering? screw you, include me first!”—I suspect there’s an information flow problem here, where this community intentionally avoids inflammatory things, and people who are inflamed by their lives sucking are consistently inflammatory; and so people who only hang out here don’t get a picture of what’s going on for them. or at least, when encountering messages from folks like this, see them as confusing inflammation best avoided, rather than something to zoom in on and figure out how to heal. I’m not sure of this, but it’s the impression I get from the unexpectedly high rate of surprise in threads like this one.
I think it’s pretty close to their true objection, more like “you want to include this in your moral circle of concern but I’m still suffering? screw you, include me first!”—I suspect there’s an information flow problem here, where this community intentionally avoids inflammatory things, and people who are inflamed by their lives sucking are consistently inflammatory; and so people who only hang out here don’t get a picture of what’s going on for them. or at least, when encountering messages from folks like this, see them as confusing inflammation best avoided, rather than something to zoom in on and figure out how to heal. I’m not sure of this, but it’s the impression I get from the unexpectedly high rate of surprise in threads like this one.