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Wrecked tbh
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I was exaggerating in my first post. They're not sociopaths, but trolling is anti-social behavior. Do you deny this? I suppose I could have merely said "trolling is anti-social behavior", but it just doesn't have the same punch as "trolls are sociopaths." "Sufficiently disconnected" is also a laughable idea. Empathy is entirely possible over a text-only medium. If you choose to not be empathic, that's up to you, but it's entirely possible. Hell, it's possible to feel empathy while reading fiction. "This is just text on a screen, it's not a real person" is an incredibly immature way of thinking about Internet interaction. It's not entirely unnatural to feel that way, but you should be able to use your brain and realize that those you interact with on the Internet are real people. ps hi v :D |
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Yeah, and masturbation is genocide.
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Trolling is not anti-social, as I said, you're making too many generalizations. Trolling is anti-social behavior. Do I deny this? Yes, I do. First of all, trolling is interacting with others, and you imply it's with the intention of driving off others. It's not all the time, in fact, from my experiences with online games, as well as many others', it's to bring in a person, or in some instances, groups of people to start an argument, "troll," then come out "on top." Just to feel superior. It's like walking down the alleyways of a bad neighborhood, and somebody random coming up to you and saying "your shirt sucks." The moment you say anything offensive whatsoever, that gives them the "excuse" to beat the crap out of you. And yes, you can compare this to trolling, at least in the luring aspect of it all (despite that some trolling may be a lot more head-on).
""This is just text on a screen, it's not a real person" is an incredibly immature way of thinking about Internet interaction. It's not entirely unnatural to feel that way, but you should be able to use your brain and realize that those you interact with on the Internet are real people. " It is not an immature way to think of it, I've spoken to some real bright people that treat text online as AI, even when they know it's not. Your opinion is extreme and uncalled for. And jeezus, you said right after "it's not entirely unnatural to feel that way." Really? Then why give such an extremist position on it so fast. And I'm sure that the majority of trollers believe others are real people. Just the fact that you said "should be able to use your brain and realize," just goes to show contradictions in all the holes in your argument. Also, rofl @ earlier comments Quote:
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get the **** outta here I didn't even bother completely reading your terrible post after I saw that instance of stupidity so early on. |
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Projecting, much?
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Trolling is interacting with others. If I troll you, are you a wall? Are you a piece of grass? rofl And just the fact that you said "reading your terrible post after I saw that instance of stupidity so early on," goes to show you can't really argue with the later points of my argument, or you're afraid of reading it. Dropped. |
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antisocial != asocial
Don't try to argue with me on this point. You are wrong. |
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Most people incorrectly use the term "anti-social," which we typically associate with introversion. "Anti-social behavior" is really a sort of selfishness that can lead to lying/cheating/stealing/harming others in some way without consideration.
So, yes, trolling is anti-social behavior because it's not really promoting any sort of social good in any way -- it's meant to simply disrupt society, even if it's an online community. But only moderately so. It's only slightly harsher than the crap someone might give another in person when making fun of him/her. The fact that you can troll anonymously only incentivizes someone to be even more of a cock without fear of punishment. |
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well I do have to agree with afrobean only in that frozen beat's post was really awful but so are afrobeans
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"Most people incorrectly use the term "anti-social," which we typically associate with introversion. "Anti-social behavior" is really a sort of selfishness that can lead to lying/cheating/stealing/harming others in some way without consideration."
Thanks for an actual explanation |
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****ing trolls, stupid thread in crit thinking, DEVOOOONIIIIIINNNNNNNN!
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