Subj : Re: Politics
To   : Andre Robitaille
From : Atreyu
Date : Sun Mar 06 2022 12:41 pm

On 06 Mar 22  09:12:01, Andre Robitaille said the following to Atreyu:

AR> I've seen people say this before, and it's not at all true. It's a mangling
AR> that you can only be hurt by someone if you allow yourself to be.

Is the expression not true? I've never been offended by anything on any FTN,
ever, in fact never offended by *anything*. I know the earth will still
revolve around the sun with or without whatever happens to my "feelings".

AR> Regardless, that's not the issue here. This is a public-ish forum, and ther
AR> are other people who have to witness the disussion. There are social norms 
AR> society, and we have some people in the BBS community that choose to be
AR> antisocial to get a reaction out of everyone so that they can feel powerful

Agreed with what you wrote, but not with the "have to witness" part. Nobody is
forced to witness anything. If something becomes upsetting or offensive, then
switch it off. Nobody forces me to read silly echomail... uhh, well for the 
most part. Some stuff I "have" to read but its all pedantic nonsense. People 
yacking about nodelists or their precious Linux installs. I could care less.

Its only like one or two non-American trolls that at one time made such a big
deal of American politics. Nobody appears to be in a flamewar over Putin, I 
doubt anyone would try to troll someone over that.

I just think that we're all mature adults that can weed out trolls on our own 
without having to engage Avon for babysitting services.

Atreyu

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