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Wow. So the new morality is that it's okay to be an asshole if the target is crowd-approved and it creates something amusing to click on. So much more Enlightened than boomers!
These aren't some vulnerable protected class of people, it's workout bros, if they can't look into a study to see it's bullshit that is on them. I agree though it's a bit rude.
Oh I know... crowdsourced blanket judgements of entire groups of people are right as long as the right people do it and they're right about it. Very common mentality, becoming more so in the meme era. I just don't happen to agree with it.
why would you think this is a moral action?
I don't, I meant OP appears to think it is, since people almost universally think their own actions are moral.
Im not sure they do. I think you are misreading the intent.
Yes, it is moral to mildly inconvenience assholes.
I don't have a dog in this fight, not into fitness and my testosterone seems fine, but I think it's as ignorant as it is arrogant to decide a whole group of people are assholes because they have certain hobbies or interests or health concerns. Absolutely as ignorant as thinking black people are criminals.
True, but the people who actually need testosterone will not be well served by researching on fitness forums, and most of the people on fitness forums who are trying to 'increase their testosterone' seem fair game as far as an amusing and mostly harmless prank.
It's not nearly as close to the racist example as you think since no one is born a fitness bro or coerced into reading a forum post, and if they are, the could spend a minute considering a source. The only person this is likely to harm would be someone desperate to legitimately increase their testosterone, unwilling to go to a doctor and somehow harmed by eating onion. At that point it's hard to say when a prank would ever be truly safe.
Yeah, I'm getting the hint that tricking people into self abuse and mocking them is the kind of thing you'd want to teach your kids to do as long as the people deserve it by being lumped into a legitimate target group, and that rationalizing that bit of minor cruelty on social media is super worthwhile.
Yeah, or maybe mocking a group that is a little too gullible and full of itself with what is arguably a broadly harmless prank isn't the same thing as tricking someone vulnerable into drinking bleach to make friends or something.
Honestly, tricking someone into eating something many people eat willingly isn't the moral quagmire you seem to think it is.
Generalizing a group is a logical fallacy. Many humans don't seem to realize that though and continue to do it anyways.