I have to say, this is just such an in-the-weeds moral stance that it crosses the boundary of reasonableness. Honestly, it’s this sort of thing that drove me away from left wing styles of thinking a while ago.
The impact you make on the world in any of your possible actions with regard to Harry Potter is miniscule. Like, truly, utterly insignificant. Are you going to organize an anti-potter boycott? Participate in a protest? Harass the actors in an online trolling movement? Throw eggs at JK Rawling’s house? Great! Go do all those things! Actively participate in changing the world for the better! These actions might actually lead to real change.
But denying yourself pleasures in the name of moral purity accomplishes nothing. If all you do is sit at home and think to yourself “I wanna watch the new Harry Potter thing, but I can’t, because then I’m a bad person.” (or in this case, "I wanna talk to my friends about the new Harry Potter thing I pirated, but I can’t, because then I’m a bad person) then you are accomplishing literally nothing except making yourself miserable. Again, if you are going to actually do something, then go do it! But if you don’t have the time or energy or interest or social battery to actually do something, then shaming yourself or others into not doing things is actively counterproductive. Go take a road trip without calculating if the pleasure you will derive is worth the carbon footprint! Eat an ice cream cone without feeling bad about the the suffering of the factory farmed cow it came from! Get one of those good-paying jobs in oil and gas or defence and make some goddamned money! You are simply not important enough for any of these actions to have any actual real-world impact. The only thing that happens is that you convince yourself that if you ever enjoy anything, then you are a bad person. You train yourself to constantly be looking for the ways in which life’s simple pleasures are destroying the world, so you can feel bad about them.
Just stop it. Be happy. Do whatever you need to do to chill out and enjoy your life and gain some sense of contentedness and security. And then go out and make the world a better place by actually doing something. Hyper-anxious, shame-ridden, depressed know-it-alls rarely create effective social change because no one wants to hang out with them. No one see them and thinks “yeah, that’s what I want my life to look like.”
In order to lead by example you have to show a path to a better world. Not a cell.
It has been multiple days since this topic was created. The original poster has seen my moderator-tagged message on the top of this post by now, and has even responded to other posters in this topic.
I’ll give it a few more days before locking. As a new rule, I’d like to say that the original topic creator should be able to adequately explain why their topic deserves a “Best Of Lemmy” if pressed by the moderators or community. Upon failure to discuss or otherwise uphold the spirit of this subcommunity, the topic can be locked, deleted or otherwise killed.
This doesn’t feel like a BestOfLemmy to me. But it’s not bad enough for me to delete it.
I know everyone has different opinions on various matters. But the argument here isn’t even good in its original context.
That being said, I’m thinking of locking this topic as I doubt any good can come from it. I would like to highlight good discussions across Lemmy (including political ones) but this just isn’t very good on any objective basis.
This is kinda bad ‘I don’t care that you care’ in too many words.
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Wait, what’s with the contradictions in here?
Multiple times, including in the title, OP says boycotting is pointless and achieves nothing, but then says that organising an anti-potter boycott is good and might actually lead to real change.
Am I misunderstanding something?
Every cent given to joanne is a cent she uses to disturb, harass, and kill trans people.
Heaven forbid people be able to exert the tiniest modicum of self control. Spend money on that ice cream! Splurge on that trip! Don’t think, just consoom! That’ll definitely fill the void in your meaningless existence.
Best of Lemmy ≠ Something meh written that makes me feel good about making a choice I was feeling for guilty for before.
Don’t pay, pirate it, don’t hype it online.
Look, useful advice without a wall of self-righteous blabber
Is talking about it after having watched it acceptable?
If making excuses for virulent transphobes is the best of lemmy in your mind, I’m concerned about what would qualify as the worst…
Not sure how good that comment is.
Everyone is here because they think Reddit is a place that should be avoided and boycotted, and that alternatives are better.
The real problem here is that HP were shit books, and always have been.
Nah they aren’t shit, they are just poor traditional school fiction with added magic…
School fiction is a genre that has existed for ever and is always no better than “meh” imho. The Potter books are definitely at most meh but not as bad as shit.
Alternative take: you can just pirate the show
