How about the harm of spoiled-brat/coddled/fragile millennials who don't reason very well, who are kind of paranoid, and who have a victim mentality not being able to handle that they didn't get their way, so they throw a tantrum (er, uh "protest")? — Terrapin Station
A lot of them are trolls, I suppose. — Terrapin Station
There was no "mix up" there. — Terrapin Station
You were asking people to list "harms." I was listing one in my opinion. Part of the point of me doing so is to stress that different people have different opinions of what counts as harms. — Terrapin Station
I expect this in general, but particularly on a philosophy message board, I expect people to be able to think for themselves a bit, to be able to make deductions and inferences and abductions and so on. — Terrapin Station
That's one point of view. Mine is another. — Terrapin Station
Usually, I think of the tediousness of daily life and seeming insignificance and meaninglessness of it all especially when I'm overwhelmed with so much urgent things-to-do, usually work related. — OglopTo
I actually previously entertained the thought that the 'higher ups' knew what they were doing when they designed the 8-hour + travel + lunch time work day, 5-day work week: it provided the right amount of distraction for essentially all of your waking hour, with enough stress and anxiety leftover that you wouldn't have enough remaining energy to use your brain for about anything else but leisure during the weekends and holidays.
People could be much more dangerous if allowed to be idle for long periods of time. — OglopTo
It's less about doing something productive and more about expressing oneself through pessimism, to the annoyance of others. — darthbarracuda
The thing about pessimism is that it is probably one of the easiest philosophies to argue for, yet one of the hardest philosophies to accept. — darthbarracuda
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