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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think I agree if I read this correctly. I'll specific as to how I understand it.

If I have opinion a, and that's the majority opinion, and any other opinion gets censored, I think I'm fine with that. Hard disagree. I wanna expose myself to nuance and other opinions. Of course there's a time and place when people hate you for nuance and specific opinions but censorship implies a legal framework and enforcement. Sure, there's a lot of majority opinions I hold but I don't want other opinions to get censored or punished on most topics. I wanna hear and learn new things.

Example of something I want censorship on: if someone just repeats NS dog whistles in a clear attempt to instigate, I think it might be good to censored them / punish them in some way. Not in a murderer way, but in a "do you know what you're saying and can you grasp what it means?" way.

Example of something I don't want censorship on: opinions political or societal systems. In fact I love discussing different ones, what they bring to the table, how they worked in practice and how they are bad so we can tweak them. On fact I invite people to tell me how capitalism itself is awesome, so we can discuss what we feel needs to be part of a healthy society and maybe we come up with novel ideas.

I guess if you wanna say "there's some censorship that's good" I might actually agree but that's way more of a narrow statement than what you're saying here.

[–] presoak@lazysoci.al 1 points 7 hours ago

I agree but my title speaks for the majority. I think that the majority does not appreciate free speech and the clashing of views. The majority is simple.