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legacynltoday at 5:25 PM4 repliesview on HN

> Sorry, anonymous people on reddit aren't a good comparison.

Yeah especially on r/AmITheAsshole. Those comments never advocate for communication, forgiveness and mending things with family.


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LinXitoWtoday at 8:28 PM

Well, because that's never the correct choice. There's a big big filter on people actually posting there. Any easy problems with obvious solutions never make it to there.

Think about it, how fucked does your relationship have to be to post on Reddit for advice?

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SJMGtoday at 7:26 PM

Yes, it is a toxic sub, where the notion that there can be greater happiness on the other side of forgiveness than cutting ties is all but absent.

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brikymtoday at 7:44 PM

I believe this. There is a graph somewhere of the relationship subs tending towards breaking up over time.

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Iuliohtoday at 7:35 PM

It's often that a lot of "NTA" answers are downright antisocial.

"No one owns you anything, you don't own anyone anything" mentality, without a crumb of social awareness.