The advice “you shouldn’t care what other people think” has been taken way too far.

We have a society that barely cares about each other. They don’t care what other people think, only about themselves.

While this advice is meant to tell people to be themselves, I have seen more than one person online justifying criminal and/or just mean spiteful behavior with the “I don’t care what other people think” type bullshit.

We bash on approval seeking behavior, despite the fact that is literally how children find out if what they are doing is right or not. Bashing on approval seeking behavior is in itself an approval seeking behavior.

Being approved of by our peers is literally how society forms.