PeriodicallyPedantic @ PeriodicallyPedantic @lemmy.ca

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Naw, I'm sure that wanting to be sad and getting that is the way to happiness... Err... Or...

Using honest to goodness em dashes instead of just a hyphen - pretty uncommon.

Even a hyphen would be pretty unusual in a real text message, because they're more annoying to get than other common punctuation on the phone keyboard, and autocomplete won't put them in.
\ In a chat app, a hyphen would probably be somewhat common since it's right there on the keyboard, but a true em dash would be pretty unusual since most chat apps aren't going to be doing autocorrect like a word processor would, and you'd have to use the magic key combination to insert it.

But we don't have the original text so we can't tell if the original author confused a hyphen with an em dash, though

As someone who used to do shit like this all the time (perma-blocking people for perceived disrespect), it's not a great way to live.

Yeah they made a shitty situation worse, but being a coward doesn't make you a bad person. Besides, they're almost certainly a kid.

Is it really a valid point if you have an anime PFP?

If getting what we want makes us happy
\ And what we want is to be sad

Then are we happy or sad?

The giant rabbit that stomps on worlds!

Bitch, it's dry over here. Come to me! Why are you just standing there?

I think thats too pedantic of an interpretation (surprising, considering my name lol).

I don't really agree that something we'd recognize as a moral system could form in a vacuum.
\ If someone's morals diverge significantly from the culture they're embedded in, I see three avenues for them:

1. Find a subculture or external culture to join to help galvanize the shame into resolve
2. Adjust your moral system to align with the culture
3. Sociopathy

Even in your extreme example, I think that only sociopaths could "go it alone", and that the people who did disagree with their culture often did so knowing that they weren't alone in that belief.

But really you're putting way to much thought into a shitpost.

What do you think that morals are, if not societal expectations? Lots of cultures disagree about what is moral and what isn't, and people from those cultures have adopted those morals by being raised in those cultures.
\ If people in those cultures stop caring if others within their own culture perceive their actions as moral, then society devolves into chaos. Maybe sociopathy would have been a better word than narcissism (although I am not a psychologist); a society of primarily sociopaths cannot survive.

Thats a real narcissistic take.

Society can't function if people don't check in to see if you're following the expectations of society. You can bend or break some expectations, but if people don't even check, then society collapses.

Hell yeah!

Poes law is hard at work here

I wonder where Schitts Creek would fall

This is just "death of the author"

Ultimate IMO, the audience is free to determine the meaning of something, but they're not free to pronounce that the author intended such a meaning.

I once watched Singham, and when the credits rolled I thought

Oh that was short, I thought Indian movies were typically quite long!

It was the opening credits.
\ Yes, I was very high. My friends had to pause the movie because they were laughing so hard.

I commend your bravery and will mourn your loss

Drilling bottom?
\ Alright, where can I get some???

I don't think the person who appeared after you on my feed got the message \

Sympathy upvote