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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are so desperate to be seen as victims. Our culture is obsessed with performative victimhood. Many so called victims are not. I reserve my sympathy for the real victims, not people who are simply desperate for attention or regret their bad decisions.

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Why does every jerk on the internet act like 1. their sympathy is of any value and 2. sympathy is a limited resource?

Every other day I see some lower functioning being saying "I have NOOO SYMNPATHY for..." and OK...what would you like us to do with this information?

I guess some people just think of themselves as special. [/quote]

People who feign victimhood are nothing more than pathetic attention seekers who exploit the sympathy of naive virtue signalers like yourself in order to gain attention and status.

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But to you, a person just describing a negative experience is "feigning victimhood." You view your sympathy as a finite resource that people prey on and try to steal from you. You get mad at people for just talking about their lives, as though that creates an imposition on you. When you could just choose to ignore the stories that don't interest you.

I see it on DCUM all the time. People get yelled at for posting about problems or situations as though posting here creates some imposition to respond. It doesn't. Just because you don't care about someone's issue doesn't mean the are obligated to never discuss it. It means YOU need to exercise judgment in where you choose to engage.

The world is not full of people "feigning victim good." Everyone has problems. You don't have to help them or even care about them. But they are allowed to look for help or compassion if they want. That's called being human, not "playing the victim."[/quote]

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