Quarantine Log Day 4: Keyboard Warriors

So I’ve noticed that in my quarantine times, I feel like I’ve been entangling myself in online arguments with keyboard warriors. I usually use my social media to share news—good and bad, share things that make me smile or inspire me or just general hacks or info to get us through this. Today and yesterday I found myself a little angered at some people’s lack of compassion. I belong to many expat groups since I was living in Paris for three years. In one of them a member asked how much to tip an uber eats delivery person. I answered with my personal opinion that we should be tipping more since these people are basically risking their lives out there to get you whatever it is you consider “essential”. Look, I think everyone has a right to their opinion and I was just expressing my own, but literally got attacked by a few people on there saying I was judgemental and self righteous. And I get it, the culture in France is to not tip as they are all supposed to be paid living wages, BUT we are in strange times. Some of the people who actually think that you should not tip the delivery person at all went as far as saying that it isn’t the public’s responsibility to make sure that the delivery person was compensated fairly, but the government's. I’m sorry, but I think the whole concept of socialism is the premise of society taking care of one another. What kind of selfish motherf*cker do you need to be to not have any compassion during these times. The fact of the matter is that if you have the luxury of being able to order takeout to your home, you are more fortunate than most. The fact that you have an internet connection to engage with people you don’t even know to try and justify why you are right in not tipping the delivery person because “it is not your responsibility” shows you are more fortunate than most and don’t even understand the premise of socialism. Probably also shows that your subconscious feels guilt and you need others to justify your actions by the number of likes your comment gets OR you just are unhappy in your very existence you feel the need for self validation. At the end of the day, I feel sorry for these people. If thinking that we should thank the people who do things that we don’t want to do ourselves during these difficult times makes me self righteous, I’m cool with that, but I think my beliefs make me more compassionate and more human.