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What gets me is when things that have nothing to do with anything are brought up, not to win an argument, but out of sheer spite.
IDEALLY:
One person posts an opinion on the subject at hand.
Another posts with their opinion on the subject, and on thefirst person's opinion.
They discuss, in a civil manner, why they have their views.
REALLY:
One person posts an opinion on the matter at hand
Another posts with an opinion soley on the first person's opinion
Another posts with an opinion on person 2 due to their opinion of the first person's opinion
Person 2 posts back about person 3.
Person 1 gets pissed at person 2 and posts things about them too.
Person 4 comes and defends person 2
Persons 5, 6, and 7 egg on both sides
Person 8 comes in with an opinion on the subject at hand, and is promptly ignored in the lust for blood.
Person 2 actually posts about the subject at hand too, and is promptly attacked for their view, regardless of what it is
Person 2 fights back with something about person X, who didn't like their opinion
Person X posts back with a scathing post about person 2, which has nothing to do with the subject at hand, but is a very well laid-out attack on everything that makes person 2 who he or she is.
Things escalate from there.
Attacking the foundation of someone's opinion is a perfectly fine way to discredit their opinion. Attacking the person to make them look bad in general to discredit their opinion is an awful, low thing to do. There's a reason why Samma-Vaca, Right Speech is one of the steps in Buddha's 8-fold path... though that wont mean a thing to a lot of you...
Just think before you speak. If your words may harm someone, don't say them.
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