This gets posted pretty frequently and I agree with it. However, it’s not obvious to me that there is a clear line where something moves from showerthought to unpopular opinion, making it hard to enforce. You could say that no opinion is a shower thought but that’s even tough to enforce.
Using an example: “if you dot your t’s and cross your i’s, you still have i’s and t’s.”
I would say that’s a good shower thought. I don’t want to pull that down, but it’s not an objective fact. I would understand if some people thought that was an opinion, because you would have really tall i’s and really short t’s.
All rules are subjective, I’m just trying to tease out my understanding of this common critique.
vatlark@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This gets posted pretty frequently and I agree with it. However, it’s not obvious to me that there is a clear line where something moves from showerthought to unpopular opinion, making it hard to enforce. You could say that no opinion is a shower thought but that’s even tough to enforce.
Using an example: “if you dot your t’s and cross your i’s, you still have i’s and t’s.”
I would say that’s a good shower thought. I don’t want to pull that down, but it’s not an objective fact. I would understand if some people thought that was an opinion, because you would have really tall i’s and really short t’s.
All rules are subjective, I’m just trying to tease out my understanding of this common critique.