Comment on Raddle that Made me Want to Talk About this thing that Happens on Raddle that I don't Like.
raddle.meSubmitted by lettuceLeafer in thoughts
I'm not taking down the commenter specifically though I ron like the comment I just want to talk about a mindset I've seen often that I don't like.
When I see these comments deriding people for not doing crime when they say the risks aren't worth the benefit seems really toxic. Like crime is cool but can we like not shame people for not doing crime? Do crime if you want but let's no shame people for not doing specific when a raddle user says they don't want to do it for personal reasons.
Like who knows why this person chose to not do shoplifting. Maybe they smuggle migrants and if they got arrested it would cause cops to look into their occupation and possible cause others to get deported. Maybe they are a single parent and if they get arrested their kid will loose their only parent. Or maybe it's none of these and they just don't want to risk going to jail or being fined just to save a couple hundred dollars. The thing is u don't know and we shouldn't pry to learn.
This thing where people try to peer pressure others to do petty crimes comes of as kinda toxicity masculine dick measuring contest but with crime. If someone decided the crime might not better their life let them live their life. Like fucking hell
Passive_Nihlist wrote
This I think is especially a lesson that can be taken from Nihlism, or as A! specified strategic Nihlism. There aren't any grand plans that are going to help us. Offering to teach others skills/offering info on how to do things may be useful, but (and I think this is especially applicable to the idea of illegalism) the pushing of people to participate in these activities, especially through the notion of reproducibility, I think is very harmful. Especially since in many cases the doing of the act (its reproduction of itself) takes over the reason anyone did it in the first place.