I disagree. I believe the function of upvotes and downvotes is self-evident, and if you are unable to handle the emotional ramifications that come along with that, you are welcome to disable downvotes within your instance, like hexbear already does.
Voting is a core feature of reddit and Lemmy. If you remove that, you end up with an entirely different kind of social media site.
For the record, I upvoted you because you make a good point. Voting doesn’t have to be toxic if the userbase understands the etiquette.