Also, note the key word in your replies: forum. Online forums have always been places that invite arguments. That's just the nature of message boards/social media. For whatever reason, we rarely want to use the internet for peaceful, relaxing discussions lol. This is because arguing can fun! But sometimes there are arguments where it feels like it's about wanting to use discourse to escalate into fucking someone else off when it doesn't need to happen (sometimes it needs to though), possibly due to experiencing difficult things going on in life making it feel necessary to put someone else under a microscope and take it out on them, which can be sad. And it's easy to point fingers at others but to be fair I and probably most forum users have done this a some point in online debates here. It can be tough not too when you're part of a passionate community because our emotional reactions feed into each other's. Sometimes it's necessary to get that heated, but often it's habitual imo, and can sometimes wire our brains to think in ways that are less healthy imo. Arguing is fun, but imo it's sad whenever it becomes about going for blood out of nowhere instead of approaching it from a more compassionate and critical place as would usually be more common offline.
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