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Maybe we should seriously stop normalyzing anxiety.
Yeah, just stop normalizing talking with people who don't want to socialize.
The problem in the comic isn't the neighbor, it is talking to the neighbor.
Just walk past without saying a word. What are they going to do? Move?
Just say "Hi !" if you're not an asshole
Only if they say “hi” first. There’s no reason to engage if they don’t.
Swear to God some of you were raised in caves
You are their neighbor and they are yours. Why should they say hi first and not you ?
There a real easy answer to that question. The reason they should say “hi” is because they want to. If they don’t want to, then by golly, they don’t have to. It’s as simple as that. Personally, I am not going to foist upon every rando on my block or in my apartment building, the burden of meaningless formalities just because I go to bed every night closer to them than 8 billion other folks’. I let them be so that they can get about with their busy day. That’s just plain considerate.
There is no problem in the comic. We live in a society, democracy is based on the idea that we want others to be treated fairly, we should start to act like one.
Greeting your neightbour is a good, easy, positive thing.
democracy is based on the idea that we want others to be treated fairly
I think the last few months have more than proven that is not the case.
Democracy, in its most common implementation, is based on the idea of the tyranny of the majority. This often runs counter to the concept of treating others fairly.
People who suffer anxiety are in the minority - and they are forced to navigate a world of people who expect them to conform with their social norms.
We should just live and let live.
Sure, but it isn't a necessary thing.
Not even in a society where everyone gets treated fairly.
expressing struggles with a common disorder is not normalizing the disorder. this is a mean comment.
It's not about this comic, it's about the pervasive rappresentation of these struggles as cute quirks instead of crippling issues stemming from a dysfuntional society that needs to be changed.
That's in a never ending amount of webcomics.
Should I also call them out as being low hanging fruits as well?
“it’s not about this comic” responds to this comic
listen i agree with your goals but if you didn’t mean to respond to this comic you can understand my confusion, no?
I'm sure you will master connecting a thing to a related concept in a matter of weeks.
you made a hurtful comment. just explaining your downvotes. :)
Thanks, I'm aware of how this may sound to the people struggling in that way. I sympatize with their struggle, I'm part of it more often than not.
I'd like it to not be the case and I don't think it's completely healthy to celebrate it.
It's a shame the world is not kind, doesn't care and downvotes mean nothing