>>127255518
Sure, you don't need to be mean about it and hurt their feelings for no reason. I'm not advocating for that.
But whether I say it or keep it to myself, I will judge someone doing something that is X, as someone who has whatever set of requirements for wanting to do X, and that judgment will happen pretty much automatically.
For example, if I see someone with dumb shit tattooed on his face, I'm going to think that this person is either taking a high-risk/high-reward approach to stardom (in hip-hop or adjacent scenes), or is a retard who fell for dumb trends that will (because of the way society is, whether we like it or not) significantly reduce the quality of his life pretty much for no reason. In this case the requirements for getting those tattoos is to be someone that I don't want in my life and will happily discriminate against, even if they don't hurt anybody. Not because of the tattoos, but because of the kind of person that you need to be in order to get them.
>one weird thing isn't hurting anybody
Watching anime is pretty mild so it doesn't really apply here, but I'm arguing against the underlying logic in general.
Things that people get judged for are often hurting *them*. Should we pretend that self-destructive behavior is ok? Even when its normalization is effectively hurting others by spreading the idea that they're ok? (examples of this are various forms of addiction such as drugs, porn, gambling, food, etc).
If everyone, when seeing someone happily engaging in such degenerate and self-destructive behaviors, doesn't say anything (and defends them as "harmless"), the result is their proliferation, which increases suffering.
If everyone called them out, the number of people doing it would be lower, so even if it's not nice to the "degenerates", it results in less suffering (and fewer "degenerates" to be offended by a society that isn't ok with self-destructive behaviors).
IMO, a bit of gossip and shaming is a society's immune system.
