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The internet commenter's fallacy: I can only interpret things that happen to other people through things that have happened to me. To some degree, this is just
by apozem 4y ago
The internet commenter's fallacy: I can only interpret things that happen to other people through things that have happened to me.
To some degree, this is just the human condition, but it is especially common (and annoying) in internet comments.
- maxbond 4y agoI think something about not being face to face makes people prone to think of your fellow commenters as an abstraction, and to interpret the ways their experiences differ as from yours as their misunderstanding rather than your not having that set of experiences. I'm aware of this, and am often able to catch myself and reflect further before hitting send, but will still observe this if I look over my past comments.