Indeed, or else by that logic I ought to start hating a lot of groups of people.CodeChrono wrote:Good point. :OCorpseGoddess wrote:So? Some of us have had "really bad experiences" and don't go off the rails and/or write off an entire gender because of it.guy07 wrote:All of a sudden i feel like an asshole ...again. What if those beliefs were based off a really bad experience she had?
There's no excuse for extremism.
Sorry. The milk of human compassion curdled in my veins a long time ago.
Besides, in the Western society these days there's not much chance you'll have an experience that is so utterly traumatic that it would even excuse (let alone justify) something like that. Most extremism of this kind (especially on the internet), in my observation, seems to rise not out of desperate situations but out of idleness and a (perhaps desperate) need to have some kind of cause to fight for. Desperation tends to lead to much more pragmatic responses, because in really bad situations you're generally restrained by reality in what you can do or how you can act. Idleness, on the other hand, lets imaginations run free and go where they basically lose reality, even if they do begin acting out their extremism. Again, especially on the freaking internet.
