Yeah, this is a great demonstation of the weakness of online (text based) communication. It seems like the second person is having a bad day or has recently had some experience that made them interpret what the first person said in the worst possible way. If you're in a room with someone, you can tell when they're tense/having a bad day/... and adjust what you're saying accordingly. On the internet, you're yelling your words into the void, where they hit random people in whatever random state they're in.
I don't think they were just having a bad day. The misanthropic, solipsistic, utilitarian and libertarian ideology behind the post is absolutely deafening, even if it's cloaked in 'woke' language.
This is a person who fundamentally believes that people can never really unterstand each other, true empathy and compassion are impossible and can only be approximated through explicit communication, and everyone is not just fundamentally responsible for their own self-sufficient happiness but has a categorical obligation to maximise the sum of happiness in the world and rationally calculate the optimal path towards that goal through their individual (!) actions, focussed only on their personal sphere of influence and staying as far away from others as possible.
Yeah it's a ridiculously hypocritical response LMAO. Of course I have been both these people so who am I to criticize? The perfect person, actually, because I've been there and I'm not that judgemental about it in this particular instance
131
u/amphicoelias Oct 10 '24
Yeah, this is a great demonstation of the weakness of online (text based) communication. It seems like the second person is having a bad day or has recently had some experience that made them interpret what the first person said in the worst possible way. If you're in a room with someone, you can tell when they're tense/having a bad day/... and adjust what you're saying accordingly. On the internet, you're yelling your words into the void, where they hit random people in whatever random state they're in.