I have two cars, but I actually hate cars.

I chose to have a house in the mountains, but I hate snow.

I work out hard and have abs that I show off, but people who show off their abs annoy me.

I’m a writer and make income doing it in addition to my retirement pension, but writers annoy me and I never tell my friends that I’m a writer.

I also paint and have had my stuff in some galleries, but artists annoy me and I never tell any of my friends that I paint.

I’ve chosen all those things. Not by necessity, but just choice. Can you be a contrarian to your own views or does that definition have to involve opposing someone else’s views just to troll?

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I have a car, because I need it for going to distant places. I would love to live in a society where you don’t need to burn fossil fuels for anything, but we aren’t there yet. I prefer to think of the current solution as a “compromise”.

    • Universal Monk@lemmy.kya.moeOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Right? I’d LOVE to have a transport system where we all just took trains or e-bikes and the infrastructure supported that. I see people in anti-car communities who make a concentrated effort to go carless. I want to be like that. Buuuut I know I wouldn’t be that dedicated! lol