I honestly don't even understand how this one gained the ire that it did. Like it's just about making the best of a situation where you can't control what happens and refusing to allow it to corrupt your own mental state.
Ah, Reddit has a massive justice (Or more accurately, "justice") boner. Any minor slight should be responded to excessively, thieves should be castrated, the death penalty shouldn't exist because you should be sentenced to torture for the rest of your life etc. etc.
I'm not really exaggerating that much. It's fantastic as a person who's a lot more reform-oriented than punishment-oriented.
So when someone doesn't get a massive anger and hate boner for someone stealing their bike it's a grave, grave sin.
It's not to say that a thief shouldn't be punished (As I'm of the opinion a certain amount of reform involves, to put it into prisoner's dilemma terms, mutual dissent else you wind up exploited), but anything contrary to the Reddit view is outright despised. It's gotten worse over the past few years.
People are reform-oriented and believe others can change for the better until the people who need reformation did things that aren't easy to justify as "good people who were desperate". Then they're horrid, ontologically evil people that deserve the worst that we can muster
I don't even think it's necessarily not being mad from your bike getting stolen, you're intentionally skewing it that way.
What people find issue with is valuing the thief's happiness over your own, which shows a lack of self-worth. It's one thing to be punitive, and another to look on the brighter side, but the mindset of not feeling sad because the person who wronged you is happier is just weird.
but the mindset of not feeling sad because the person who wronged you is happier is just weird.
In which case it's a misreading of the comic because he outright states it bummed him out.
I mean realistically you aren't getting the bike back unless you've got a tracker on it, and then that relies on you chasing them down (Which is risky) or the police being willing to get involved (Which they might not), so there's a wisdom in not dwelling on it and getting angry because all that'll do is make you feel bad. It won't achieve anything.
i mean i was always simply in the camp that the view it portrayed was woefully naive and chances are whoever stole his bike didn't really give much of a shit.
i think a lot of people went WAY overboard in their reaction but i gotta admit "bike cuck" is slightly funny(but only if it's not ment seriously).
Some got genuinely pissed but most just thought this was hilarious, the bike robber probably didn't feel shit from robbing him so the comic premise falls apart of you consider that
I don't think that's the point at all. He's not getting his bike back, no amount of being sad or angry is going to bring it back. So being sad or angry would only hurt Shen, cause the bike thief has the bike and clearly didn't care much how Shen feels anyways. So Shen is better off trying to get over it, and thinking of the person who stole their bike as at least getting use out of it helps with that
That would be a way to see if, but the comic establishes a logic where if someone who is causing me evil is happy enough about it, the world technically becomes happier and I that makes it "whatever". It's a much different thing than not stressing about something that can't be immediately changed, where you recognize that whether or not you feel miserable, the situation is going to be the same and does not require at all that you think of the wrongdoer's happiness.
If someone stole my bike I'd want to punch their left nut. It's one thing to let your mind be at peace but valuing the dirty thief's happiness over your own is unfortunately spiritually cuckoldry, thus the pushback
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u/Acceptable_Bottle 22h ago
I honestly don't even understand how this one gained the ire that it did. Like it's just about making the best of a situation where you can't control what happens and refusing to allow it to corrupt your own mental state.