You know, Ive been meaning to address this for a while so I suppose now is as good as anytime. Cyberspace and social media only allow a very face value frame of reference with people. In other words, we see a status or a post on a message board, and people get attacked for their opinions, lifts, beliefs, whatever. We argue incessantly about proverbial nonsense. People get attacked personally in all sorts of ways, get ridiculed and belittled with no regard about who they are, or what may be going on in their life. We have no idea if the person on the other end is having a real crisis. Their dad could be dying, their personal life could be in shambles, they may not have the money to make rent. Their kid could have been diagnosed with a terminal illness on the day they lost their job. Sometimes we dont realize that the defensive asshole may be dealing with these things while we pile on the personal insults. Ive been guilty of this as well, but I try to do a better job of that shit now than I did years ago. Its one of the reasons I dont go to someones page and sling insults around. For one, generally no one changes their mind about anything, and second, you have no idea how badly that person is being kicked in the balls in their personal life. No need in applying another nut kick to someone that I dont know, and whose bills I dont pay. Nor do they pay mine. We dont have to run around singing kumbaya with each other or sucking each others dicks but showing a modicum of respect in real life and throughout social media shouldnt be a monumental task I think.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 03:30:48 +0000
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