Fuck You Kindly

[redbrunja]

There is this bumpsticker that never fails to decrease my mood by 25% as soon as I see it.

It says, "Everyday is a good day."

Really? Everyday? The day you got raped? The day your mother died? The day you finally shuffle off this mortal coil? Those were all good days?

Fuck you.

Comments

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

Not that I don't agree that the statement itself is erroneous, but maybe it's this person's way of trying to be optimistic.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they are. It's factually incorrect and emotional bullshit sentence.

[lykomancer.livejournal.com]

I think that's true of everyone's attempt to be optimistic.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Not automatically. Personally speaking, those optimistic statements that take into account the reality of the situation, such as 'every cloud has a silver living' or 'this too shall pass' (which I used to hate but now have a grudging fondness for) or even 'there is something good in every day' are, imho, if not completely logically bulletproof, at least solidly set in the same reality I live in.

Also, that icon is fucking epic.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, they are fallacies, so they are mistakes like:

"All men are the same"
"All optimistic sentences are "this or that"."
"Everyone love it"
"Everyday is good", is as wrong as to afirm "everyday is bad"...

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

"All men are the same"

This one in particular I think is deeply embedded in our culture and deeply damaging.