Stop Whining and Do Something!?

Question

I posted this question on 9/11 and blu_drgn2 said this:

"Unless you personally do something to make the situation better stop your whinning! Why should anyone be punished? We need to fix the problems and stop complaining. Get off your butt and do something to make this world a better place if you do not like the way it is. "

Do you believe posting information, informing people about facts which we all don't really have time to look up ourselves and then getting people's opinions is a waste of time? Or might it be called doing something about it not through action but through education?

Answer 1

1) it's what "The News" does...puts information out to the public (ideally).

2) Depends on the delivery. In some cases, it can be called "commentary" ...Take Al Franken or Rush Limbaugh for example. The theory is that with the pertinent information, the people who hear it will be motivated to act upon that information. Where it gets whiny is when somebody is parroting another well-established commentary and offering no solutions.

Pointing out flaws, injustices, wrongdoings, and the like...whining.
Pointing them out and offering solutions...productive.

Answer 2

To answer the question in your second paragraph. Yes posting correct and factual information is always helpful. Posting tinfoil hat conspiracy dis-information is counter productive and a waste of time and resources. When there aren't serious problems to take care of it's kind of fun to read that stuff for a good laugh. Now it's just pathetic.

Answer 3

1 - No!

2 - It could be - depending upon the factuality and bandwidth of the information provided.

Answer 4

We are sharing and learning so I would say it could come under education.

Answer 5

This isn't whining. It's killing time in a kind of interesting way.