Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.235.191.26-20140721085214/@comment-25206410-20140724023212

@Basilisk

I didn't want to have to explain that one, but since you asked nicely I guess I will.

When the only counter to any argument is 'you don't have to subjigate yourself to it', then you are either too lazy to bother countering them, or you have no legitimate counters. To try and act like this argument holds any weight at all is to be dishonest. Everyone knows that hardly anyone in the Western World is forced to watch things, to say 'don't like don't watch' is to dismiss any criticism of the show.

Be it constructive or flaming, to disregaurd anything completly is foolish.

If I were to expand the 'don't like don't watch' philosophy to things outside the internet, it wouldn't hold any weight. Don't like that political party? Ignore them. Don't like religious programming? Don't watch it, don't educate yourself on it, don't bother trying to see what they are trying to say simply beacuse you disagree with it. See those people suffering? You don't want to see that, so turn the TV off and never think of it again.

See where this goes?

You could say that this comparission is unfair, but I would object to that. How is this any different? Why should I not watch something just beacuse I won't like the content? When it comes to entertainment, viewers (in my opinion) have a borderline obligation to give feedback to the presentor. WIthout feedback, the maker will continue to just think and hope his creations are good and will have little to no capacity to improve.

I know this, I write fiction, without feedback I wouldn't be as far as I am today (at the great age of 18) and to say that I shouldn't criticize something beacuse I don't it like is rather stupid. I criticize BEACUSE I didn't like it, it's not like I can unwatch what I saw, and due to my personal stance on feedback I felt the need to post this and have a discussion about it with those who would listen.

Would you stop being freinds with someone beacuse you don't like their stance on something? Or would you criticize that position and try to make them see your side?

Trying to mantain a bubble of positivity on any work of fiction will only result in it's failure, some time down the line this show may upset you, and you might post about it. I garentee you some work of fiction has upset you, and you've probably told people about it. In your world though, your criticism is not welcome or valid.

Why did you watch something you didn't like? Just turn it off and never think about it again.

I don't want to live in a world of ignorence, especially willing ignorence, and so that is why I see the 'don't like don't watch' argument to be nothing but the argument of intellectually lazy, dishonest, or dumb people.