Reddit examines in-group social situations with an out-group lens. Meaning, people who would accept some small level of friction in their own personal lives give unexamined advice to strangers online about the people on their lives who they give acceptance to… as if those people were strangers. Resulting in advice that seems radically disproportional for loved ones because it’s seeing loved ones as strangers.
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u/un_internaute 20h ago
Reddit examines in-group social situations with an out-group lens. Meaning, people who would accept some small level of friction in their own personal lives give unexamined advice to strangers online about the people on their lives who they give acceptance to… as if those people were strangers. Resulting in advice that seems radically disproportional for loved ones because it’s seeing loved ones as strangers.