Today, we are living in a digital age—where social media provides us with infinite space for endless debates and arguments.
These days, if you have an opinion on anything under the sun, you can thrust yourself headlong into a tirade with people who have nothing better to do than bashing you in virtual arguments to the point of becoming abusive. What we forget while we beat ourselves down are the issues that actually need to be tackled in the real physical world.
People debate for the sake of debating; the idea is not to solve or address an issue, but to insult and win.
Here’s What I Have Observed On Social Media
Whenever one attempts to address an existing social problem—either to improve the situation or to bring awareness regarding the issue—people simply start comparing, rather than getting involved or endeavouring to understand the situation. They do so just to prove that whatever will be, will be, and nothing that is happening now is new, thus setting a precedent for the current situation. The result is a futile, mostly insolent discourse that might end up hurting more than one person.
Thus, we are left without a solution and indirectly end up supporting the social evil or problem which genuinely needs to be solved. Comparative reasoning, if at all, should be done with a solution in sight, not with a question mark. Any discussion that does not end in a possibility is pointless. It merely sets us back several decades.