The argument can however be abused if it's used to stifle legitimate protest, such as when someone justifiably complaining about some social ill is told to shut up and stop ruining everyone's fun - or, worse yet, blamed for the misfortune, or it can also be used to demonstrate a character's naivety.
Can be a trait of The Anti-Nihilist or the Knight in Sour Armor, and used to deconstruct the Straw Nihilist mentality. This is to show that The Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism does not always stick to one end, but tends to lie somewhere in the middle, and that you need a bit of both to really see the world for what it is. Yes, extreme idealism does tend to result in stupid decisions and disasters, but extreme cynicism results in laziness, negligence, cruelty and callousness, and is just as bad, if not even worse, than its idealistic counterpart. This trope is the Inversion of Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!, showing that being extremely cynical is not exactly better. It can also happen when an old-fashioned or young character tries too hard to be what they think an adult is, like a Perpetual Frowner. Fittingly, it tends to be done by the very people that the cynic had regarded as fools. These characters are often summarily called out for their wangst precisely because of this.
All while soothing their egos with an unearned sense of superiority, claiming they're being "realistic" for wallowing in defeatism rather than taking a risk to change the situation they claim to despise so much. They thus prove themselves to be just as dogmatic, narrow-minded, and damaging as they think the overtly idealistic characters are. And in some cases, these misanthropes have even actively made the world a worse place by falsely assuming that everyone was out to screw them and thus opting to screw over and exploit everyone else first.
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In their sheer apathy, they have often actively allowed otherwise manageable problems to ferment and fester into full blown crises and Crapsack Worlds, all while missing several golden opportunities to make the world a better place due to constantly thinking about themselves alone in the Despair Event Horizon for all eternity. They're wasting their entire philosophical intellect and strength of character in their lamentations. Their pessimistic and negligent attitude ironically made them turn lazy, cruel and selfish themselves.
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