LogFAQs > #970650137

ReturnOfFa posted...

I still think the subsequent reaction (harassment) to some less necessary critiques was a worse reaction that only served to prove a point.

But if you're proving a point that was never part of the original discussion, and was only part of it at all because you recontextualized the entire debate to throw attention off your own guilt, that doesn't really negate your own culpability.

Or to put it another way, just because you can point out that some of your critics are bad faith actors doesn't make you any less of an asshole.

At the end of the day, there are absolutely walking shitbags on both sides, and a legitimate subject that honestly probably should have been discussed and addressed was silenced because people online have discovered the power of playground-level insults.

It's the main problem with social media in general, and the fact that so much of modern culture and discourse has moved to an online arena. It drags almost everything down to the most basic, juvenile, rhetoric-fueled emotional level, so the end result of almost any discussion - whether it be ethics, politics, religion, criminal justice, economics, etc - is that everyone winds up angry and most people wind up being assholes.