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Oh, internet. Why must you have so many people being Wrong on you?
Though I like to think it is a sign of some sort of maturity on my part that I can, after some annoyance, just walk away from a pointless argument on an utterly trivial matter.* Is the other person in the argument being irritating and arguing in a condescending and unfair manner? Yes. Does it really matter in the grander scheme of things? No.
It's much harder for me to walk away from an argument on what seems like a less pointless matter. "Ha ha, don't worry about offending people, write whatever you want, all us smart folks know that 'offense' is just something people do for fun! They're just being silly!" makes me start muttering. "Stupid people should just die already as is right and proper" makes me--well. In this case, resist actually start shouting about Hitler and the mentally disabled, or the utterly idiotic solipsism of assuming that safeguards are only ever relevant to Other Dumb People and never to oneself. I just hit the Report Post button instead.
But, y'know. People being Wrong on the internet. It happens. And sometimes I see someone get jumped on for saying something very Wrong, and then see them come back and go, "My goodness, you're right, I phrased that wrong and I also totally see how I didn't get that part of what you meant, how foolish of me! I'm sorry!" And that restores some faith in humanity.
(I try to be that person myself, sometimes. I am trying to get better at going "Wow, you're right, I was wrong," instead of just slinking off in shame when someone points out where I was wrong. That is an adult thing to do, right? I'm not very good at it yet.)
Oh well. I should probably go toss a ball around for my doggy, and see if I can get at least 750 words of writing done today, since I'm done with tomorrow's homework. Those would be good things to do.
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* How to define a JRPG. Yeah. I know.
Though I like to think it is a sign of some sort of maturity on my part that I can, after some annoyance, just walk away from a pointless argument on an utterly trivial matter.* Is the other person in the argument being irritating and arguing in a condescending and unfair manner? Yes. Does it really matter in the grander scheme of things? No.
It's much harder for me to walk away from an argument on what seems like a less pointless matter. "Ha ha, don't worry about offending people, write whatever you want, all us smart folks know that 'offense' is just something people do for fun! They're just being silly!" makes me start muttering. "Stupid people should just die already as is right and proper" makes me--well. In this case, resist actually start shouting about Hitler and the mentally disabled, or the utterly idiotic solipsism of assuming that safeguards are only ever relevant to Other Dumb People and never to oneself. I just hit the Report Post button instead.
But, y'know. People being Wrong on the internet. It happens. And sometimes I see someone get jumped on for saying something very Wrong, and then see them come back and go, "My goodness, you're right, I phrased that wrong and I also totally see how I didn't get that part of what you meant, how foolish of me! I'm sorry!" And that restores some faith in humanity.
(I try to be that person myself, sometimes. I am trying to get better at going "Wow, you're right, I was wrong," instead of just slinking off in shame when someone points out where I was wrong. That is an adult thing to do, right? I'm not very good at it yet.)
Oh well. I should probably go toss a ball around for my doggy, and see if I can get at least 750 words of writing done today, since I'm done with tomorrow's homework. Those would be good things to do.
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* How to define a JRPG. Yeah. I know.