Hi...
There's something I have tried time and time again to understand, but I just can't, and it just keeps coming up. I'm posting here in the hopes that I can try to figure this out.
I suppose I should start by saying that I am a Right to Repair advocate. I won't get into that too much here; I've talked about this before in another topic of mine, but it basically comes down to having the choice to service your own devices without the Manufacturer being able to force you to go to them to do it. This is something that I personally believe to be one of many fundamental human rights that everyone on this planet is entitled to have, no matter what.
I was having this discussion with someone who is very close to me. Their response was that they don't care about these things. Here's where I get confused. This person leans far to the right. They support Donald Trump, they're in favor of guns... You get the picture. They're also in favor of legalizing drug use, because they believe in freedom over safety. Their belief is that if people want to destroy their lives by taking things that will mess them up or kill them, as long as they're not harming others, it should be their choice to do that. If they are harming others, they should pay the consequences to the full extent of the law. Mind you, I'm just pointing out this person's beliefs. I don't feel comfortable going into my beliefs on that subject here because that would take away from the subject I'm trying to discuss.
Here is where their beliefs fall apart. They say they value freedom while also stating that they don't care what happens with Right to Repair, even if it could eventually lead to a society where you own nothing and are under control of the companies who not only own the devices you use, but even more simpler things, or they just own you as a whole. They care an awful lot about how Jo Biden could be running this country into the ground, but they don't care about the much smaller yet prevalent issues which, if not taken care of, could still spell long-term disaster. This person whom I've chosen to leave anonymous is running out of a burning building barefooted, but they're focussing on the collapsing roof that could kill them instantly when they should be focussing on the shattered glass on the floor that could cut them wide open, and if they can escape safely, they're still gonna bleed out and die because of their open wounds.
I can't, for the life of me, understand this mentality of trying to jump to the top of the latter without trying to take baby steps up each individual rung. If you did that with an actual latter you could possibly fall down and hurt yourself, so why do people continuously try it? I actually did this exact same thing in a topic about Among Us, but the difference there is that I had no idea there was a latter to climb at all until someone in that topic pointed it out to me. This person knows there's a latter to climb because I told them as much. They simply don't care, because they'd rather invest what little time and energy they have between going to work and managing the children into fighting higher powers that they have absolutely no control over until 2024. Yell and scream at Trump and/or Biden all day long until your face turns purple, but you're not making any changes that way, or at least not the changes you're probably hoping for. You have to focus on the smaller things before you can tackle the bigger issues.
Notice how I haven't mentioned whether or not I'm on Trump or Biden's side? That's because I don't know anything about them, and that is purely out of choice. People always tell me that I should pick a side in this massive political debate, but I care a lot more about the issues right in front of me that affect me directly than I do about large issues that I ultimately have no control over. Why don't other people see that as well?