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I don't think anyone in this thread is complaining about its existence on lemmy at all.
Some people are suggesting that it should be marked as NSFW. If you don't want to use NSFW tagging, that's great, you be you and turn it all off in your settings, but please don't shout at people who do want to use the NSFW tagging to help them curate their feed.
If you disagree that this kind of image should be classified as NSFW because you want to use lemmy at work to view this kind of image but blur things that feature more explicit images, that's fine. and you could express that calmly and positively, but shouting in the thread at people using a lemmy feature for its designed purpose seems like a really over the top reaction to me, particularly since the NSFW features are all completely optional for you.
Implicitly, there is only one solution of puritanical situations and that's to curate you feed.
Is a post about how you should unionize NSFW in this strange argument? Who knows. Do you live somewhere that showing ankles is only made as a prurient interest? Good luck friend!
If you scroll though the all feed enough, you're going to find plenty of things that aren't socially acceptable in your own mind.
But I'd like the Not Suitable For Work feature to filter posts that are not suitable for work. It's curation, just a different way to your preferred way. If you don't want to use the NSFW features, just turn them off. No need to be cross about it. It's in settings.
(Your point about ankles is badly made, in my view. I think you were arguing the point that because there's no objective speed that separates slow from fast, there's no difference between slow and fast, but that doesn't make sense in the real world. It might be hard to judge sometimes, but that doesn't mean I should be shouted at for advocating an opinion on voluntary speed limits!)