Just seen a thread on reddit, where people are complaining about UK residents having to provide their ID to see online porn. The outrage is widespread, you never see this kind of outrage when kids or the disabled are being starved to death by the government. One redditor even said something like, “I was appalled when the government made it more difficult for people to get disability benefits, but this - requiring ID for porn - has gone too far and now I really want to do something about this!”
Yeah I can’t actually blame anyone for this kind of behavior without massive hypocrisy in some way or another. There are so many great evils in the world today that, with the context that my emotional health already sucks, if I actually took time to think deeply on how upsetting each one of them is I would be in a mental hospital longterm. At some point I give myself leeway to to kick and scream and dramatize about minor inconveniences that affect me personally, and in a lot of cases online is a more appropriate place for having those tantrums.
well said