What makes us feel we need to share our opinions with communities and the world?

@calicuz That’ll be your stateside education.

@Morvoren

Pretty much.🤣

@Morvoren

@MyNameIsHurl Giving that some thought. Opinions go way beyond media... we all have opinions about so many things that others just don't seem to really care about or agree with.
Why do we feel the need to share with the world?

@SW-User people want to feel heard I guess

@FloorGenAdm Hmmmm.... giving that thought...but WHY did anyone first feel opinions needed to be shared with everyone?

@SW-User Someone developed a paranoid complex and ran with it.

@FloorGenAdm And the rest of us followed?

@Ontheroad People seem to be seeing this as internet only and some taking the examples I gave as what to post about.
Thank you for your thoughts.

@Ontheroad Even if I don't agree with absolutely everything, I think your post are well written. They sometimes get me to look at something from a different perspective.

@Riverman2 I second that.

I don’t make jokes. I’m a very serious person. Many old people end up alone in old age, so that’s nothing unusual. I’m one of millions. @Ceinwyn

@Ceinwyn Where is the joke in what I wrote? 🤦‍♀️ You don’t have an argument, so you choose to insult me for being old and alone. Typical wokester.

@Carissimi Since businesses have customers with all kinds of different opinions, they can't risk alienating them by allowing their employees to spout hate speech that could be associated with their employer. Saying "only biological women can give birth" may be true in one sense, but we both know that attitude is associated with hatred and oppression of trans people. So if someone is posting that on line and their employer decides that attitude isn't something they want to be associated with, the person could lose their job.

This has nothing to do with free speech as there are no legal consequences, but businesses are entitled to protect themselves from things their employees say that could be offensive and reflect badly on the company. You can have whatever feelings you like, but when you express them, there could be consequences.

@calicuz have you ever seen that happen?

@SW-User

@calicuz Lmao!!! Love it! lol

@Northwest
I'm learning it isn't a good thing to give my opinion much anymore... online or daily life.
If it's not going to make a positive difference and matter, I'm not bothering anymore.
And seriously, with or towards people in communities and such, people we don't even know... it just doesn't make sense to me to bother.

@SW-User Many people feel the same. In my opinion though, if people have something constructive, or useful to share, they should. Despite the fact that some people will not like it, as it may not fit their narrative.

Some people are all about the noise, that’s what the block button is for.

@ShadowWorker I've been learning that many times, opinions shouldn't be shared when it's just going to cause hurt, fights, and upsets. Too often it changes nothing.
I think your opinions are good ones and we seem to agree on a lot of things, but there's many in daily life and internet who argue and disagree... and it doesn't seem to fill a real purpose.

@SW-User huh.. I guess a person has to pick their ...battles.
Yup... everyone should respect other's opinions.
What goes around..comes around. If you want respect for your own thoughts and beliefs..you must in return do so for others. If you can't..that person needs to look deep inside..cause they are hypocrites.

@checkoutanytime People put banners, flags and signs in their yards too.

@4meAndyou Yep. I once was given a jacket with a sport team logo.
I wore it to go grocery shopping once and had a man get nasty about it because he doesn't like the team. lol
Maybe we just need to keep such stupid things to ourselves. I
I didn't even get what he was mad about until a daughter explained it... it was just a jacket within reach when I was leaving.

@SW-User Wow. Intense, and you're correct, (at least as far as sports goes), stupid.

@MarmeeMarch That could be a good possibility.
Maybe we need something else that fills that spot in a more positive way.

@MarmeeMarch true, but also is the opinion who people think will do a great job.

@Unquestioned Yeah... but I was wondering about people needing to somehow show opinions. And I see you have opinions, but not really about what I asked.

@SW-User You mentioned politics and religion. I don't argue about them or give an opinion, I just take the piss out of them.