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

People put signs in their yards stating who they will vote for, people go online to debate/argue about the same.
Politics, religion and just about anything under the sun... people will argue about it all and even resort to be rude, insulting, etc.... and yet, it never makes a real difference in anyone's life.

Why do we feel anyone really cares about our opinions? (unless they are like minded)

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Ceinwyn · 26-30, F

It’s the lure of people being arseholes to strangers without any repercussions.

I’ve seen people say things here that if said in the real world would either cost them their reputation or job, maybe even charges.

But here there’s none of those things so you’ll get people being racists or encouraging violence or wanting to wound someone.

I’ve stopped taking SWers seriously. Too many of them are here to broadcast shite without consequences.

Carissimi · F

And that’s the problem ... losing a job, charges, for sharing your thoughts and values? That’s the big problem because it should not be criminal or job losing if you say “only a woman (biological female) can give birth, not biological men.” They have made facts and reality a crime. Truth is a crime in some countries. Comedy is a crime in places. It’s wrong, and its only been like this for a few years, before then, we had freedom of speech. That’s the problem with the so called “hate speech,” who decides what is “hate.” Hate is an emotion. We should not be outlawing emotions. We should be free to love and hate who we like without repercussions. Your way of thinking is causing this problem that never existed but a few years ago. It’s authoritarian thinking, and nothing good, in history, ever came from authoritarian regimes. @Ceinwyn

Ceinwyn · 26-30, F

@Carissimi Maybe you made less jokes about people and appreciated them more you wouldn’t be here now writing some many posts about how lonely you are in your old age.

Carissimi · F

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

Carissimi · F

@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.

Lila15 · 22-25, F

@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.