drop the guilt trip assholes!

i'm sick of guilt trips being used for people to get their way.

it's everywhere, especially on tv. it's in the sad commercials about starving kids in africa and homeless pets that are gonna be put to sleep if you don't do something (put to sleep, or to put it more bluntly, killed by those same people who so compassionately make the commercial).

we're forced to watch anti smoking commercials that try to make you think about all the bad shit that's gonna happen down the road if you don't quit smoking. as if there's 1 dumbass left in this world somewhere who doesn't understand the consequences of smoking.

vegetarians will tell you how awful the killing procedures are for animals. churches will tell you you're gonna burn in hell forever if you don't join them. anti-abortion protesters use pictures of dead fetuses. your boss tells only the good employees stay late and take extra shifts. teachers tell you F's will ruin your future.

people will use all types of guilt to try and get you to see things their way. but this is totally the wrong way to go about things. nothing should make you feel more guilty than laying guilt trips on people and watching it work... or sometimes it doesn't work and you don't get what you were looking for (a donation or a new follower or whatever) but still that person who refused to see things your way might walk away feeling a little crappier about themselves.

if what you're offering is so positive, why not use a more positive way to convince others? show us what's so great about what you're offering instead of showing us what's so negative about not accepting it. if it's really something so awesome, people should probably gravitate towards it naturally.

guilt trips are a form of manipulation. manipulation is a form of control. trying to control others in such a fashion is grade A douchebaggery. what you're really doing is sullying the image of whatever it is you're trying to represent. no one likes an asshole, and that's who uses guilt trips. all you're doing is convincing me that your movement is filled with assholes and it keeps me farther away.