Aaand...the idiocy race is off again, as another World Event starts

[Kaynin]

I hate valentines tbh. Would rather be nice to each other 364 days a year, and assing one day we all hate eachother instead.

All these celebrations and special days and mothersday, fathersday, valentines, tons of other stuff. Seriously, all a load of hypocritical bullshit!

I agree with you that we should honor the sentiments that these holidays represent year round, but I don't see that the holidays themselves are hypocritical or bad (unless you consider how a lot of them are kind of pushed on us by retailers and we're not "doing it right" unless we're spending money or whatever). Treating your mother/father/loved one/gradpappy/pet/mailman/whatever well year round and having one particular day in which you honor them doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. I mean I think most of us appreciate the contributions that folks like Martin Luther King or the soldiers that fight for us make to us, and when we think of them we are usually glad, but having one day to kind of remind us of what they did and their sacrifices and honoring that doesn't detract from our thankfulness for the rest of the year. (at least for me anyways, I'm scatter brained and a little reminder never hurt me any)

but yeah, I agree with you that though if we had to choose between the two, I'd go with being nice to those individuals year round also. I just dont think the two have to be mutually exclusive.

I do agree.

With the hypocritical part, I was aiming mostly at the sudden need people have to do stuff 'because it's a holiday' or 'because their neighbours expect them to'. Or people that visit someone once a year on their birthday, because someone else is going as well, etc. These sentiments happens every so often, and many are guilty to this! That's the part I find hypocritical. :P It's often not about the feeling to participate in such things for the right reasons, but participation for the sake of the collective instead.