From: Wanglicious | #266
honestly i'd say he's throwing far too much behind the experience card. no you don't have to experience something to understand it. other experiences can provide different viewpoints (and evidently, do here) as well as just plain different personalities. always hated that card because it's circular and self-fulfilling more than helpful. experiencing something certainly will help you understand it to an intimate level, but it's not necessary, and in fact it's unreasonable and illogical, to judge at that level as well.
That's exactly my point.
I mean I feel for DYL, don't get me wrong, it's terrible if what he described happened to him. But it doesn't give him a raised platform to preach about this situation, and is actually more likely to cloud his judgement.
And I'm kind of the same with the whole "bully at my school literally did die" thing but at least I know that. I fully acknowledge the affect it had on me and how I view life in this kind of situation, even the life of a crapweasel like that.
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