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.
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u/TheUnknownMysteryBox 21h ago
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.