> But genuine trolls are good people! Provoking strong emotional reactions with basically zero effort is just holding a mirror in front of people The language

> But genuine trolls are good people! Provoking strong emotional reactions with basically zero effort is just holding a mirror in front of people The language and thinking you use here seems worryingly close to sociopathy. I say this because the language above discounts the pain experienced. So to respond in a relatively clinical way, using that kind of language, no, doing that is not just a mirror. It is your choice to introduce a statistically likely stressor with a statistically predictable stress response. If a person knows there is a high probability that doing X will upset people, under what conditions is doing so ethical? If you claim to "be teaching them an important lesson" then you probably should pause and study human psychology. Exposing people ad-hoc (in an uncontrolled setting) to a stressor is not a generally good strategy to "cure" them of the response. There is lots of research here: I recommend learning more.