[ SECRET POST #3406 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3406 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 056 secrets from Secret Submission Post #487.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT
Seems pretty clear AYRT is referring to acting on spite as being unhealthy not the specific act of pirating a book OP would never buy.

[(Anonymous)]

But that turns the anon's argument into "it's shitty to think badly of other people". Sure, OP's motivation might be petty, but the negative motivation, i.e. spite has been channeled into something harmless, i.e. pirating a book they wouldn't have purchased anyway. As far as coping mechanisms go, isn't that ideal? Something negative is transformed into something innocuous that doesn't hurt anyone. How is that shitty?

Then again my personal coping mechanism is eating things that are bad for me, so I kind of wish I had a coping mechanism that didn't have negative results.

[(Anonymous)]

In what possible way do you think "acting out of spite is bad" equals "it's shitty to think badly of people"? Because it doesn't. Like, at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Because everyone agrees that the action itself isn't negative, so what's left? Answer: the motivation.

[(Anonymous)]

Broaden your perspective. You're focusing on the specific act of pirating, not the broader act of doing things out of spite. Not liking someone or thinking someone is bad for the world is not the same as doing something for the sole purpose of spite, whether it is actually useful or not - clearly OP *thought* what they were doing was spiteful, even though it was just stupid.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, I'm focusing on the specific act of pirating because that's what the secret is about. It doesn't make sense to me to berate the OP for things they haven't actually done.

[(Anonymous)]

When I said broaden your perspective, it was so you could understand the narrower focus. Because YES. OP flat-out said they were doing this out of spite. They were just too stupid to know how pointless it was. The broad perspective STILL APPLIES.

[(Anonymous)]

The broad perspective here is so broad as to be a little useless, though. If OP starts doing things that are actually bad because of their spite, then sure, chastise them. But if they're not actually doing anything except finding a way to channel their spite into something that's not a negative outcome? Nah. You go ahead and get mad even though no harm has been done to anyone, but I've got blood pressure issues and I don't need to manufacture reasons to be mad at people.