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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
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[–] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you really were a rational thinker you would have to choose your side separately for every single issue

  1. You should already do this for anything you care about? It really, really doesn't take long for the important stuff. For everything else -
  2. You don't need to take a side on things you don't understand. If you haven't had the time to assess something... don't share an opinion about it. It's perfectly functional and rational for humans to specialize and leave problems for other humans to deal with. It is only social media that convinced people they should care about literally everything.
[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 6 days ago

It takes a lot of thought and research to come up with a good opinion on some subjects. Some subjects are easy because of values, but you need a lot of study to understand other subjects.

You need to have an opinion on things you don't understand. There are people for and against vaccines - this is a very complex subject and both sides have what sounds like science behind them, and both also have real medical doctors. You are affected though so you better get to the bottom of it as both sides will tell you the wrong choice is a disaster.