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But he got to insult a stranger on the internet. How else is someone supposed to build their self esteem?? :(

• DanielBMarkham 13y ago
  Good grief. Just to be clear, no disrespect to the commenter was intended or made. The comment itself was bad, because it took a wonderful personal story and used it to derail the attempt by the larger group to analyze the topic. Good people can make bad comments. I do it all the time. Most of the time I try to self-identify such comments by prefixing them with "sidebar" "meta" or another tag.
  • ryguytilidie 13y ago
    Yep, it is not disrespectful in any way to call someone's point stupid and use your own incorrect projections as a way of doing so. Maybe the next time you think "I'm going to make a helpful comment on the internet" just go sit in the corner and don't bother the people who are actually having a useful adult discussion that involves facts versus baseless, passive aggressive projected insults. I genuinely feel like you would have contributed more to society by just sleeping in today...
  • kaybe 13y ago
    Maybe 'bad' is not the best description for getting your point across in this case. I feel that the two of you understand differently what you tried to say.. 'bad' is quite emotionally charged for some (for someone it's directed at) and can distract from the discussion for this reason, and I think there are adjectives that do a similar enough job without this while still explaining what happens here from your point of view.