I am constantly amazed when people make a choice to voice opinions - those critical and rude opinions that are totally unnecessary. And I am quite sure I'm seeing more of it, especially on social media.
Let me explain with some examples.
I'm in a Facebook group where people share recipes and ideas on cooking with an air fryer. Group members share tips and ask questions. Pretty safe and innocuous group, right? Wrong.
One member posted a recipe for roast beef with a photo of the finished product. She was excited that it turned out so well and that her family loved it. But right away, other members started blasting her.
"How can you eat such red meat?"
"Didn't you even cook that stuff?"
"Do you want to hear the cow moo when you cut into it?"
"WAY too rare for me!"
And then came the vegans ...
"You don't care that a cow died so you could eat that?
"Cows are such neat animals. Why are you killing them?"
Heaven help the member who posted a photo and recipe for a dish that included bacon!
"Why aren't you cooking something more healthy?"
"I can't imagine eating little pigs! You should feel bad about that."
"Doesn't this recipe defeat the purpose of an air fryer?"
Now, all of the above opinions were unnecessary and, in my view, rude. Why do some people feel the need to criticize others for something that doesn't affect them at all? They don't have to eat the food and certainly don't have to cook it for themselves, yet they chose to bash someone else for daring to make different lifestyle choices! Have these adults not learned to scroll on by? I actually asked that a couple times and both times were told that they "have the right" to voice their opinions.
Yes, they do. But maybe we should all learn that our opinions aren't always necessary or helpful or kind. Sometimes it's better to just scroll on by.
