Comments like that one aren't harmless—they're the sort of attack which would quickly destroy this forum if we allowed them.
There's a common pattern where people underestimate the provocation in their own comments by (say) 10x and overestimate the provocation in the other person's comments by another 10x. Put those together and you get a 100x distortion in self/other perception. That's a lot of skew.
I don't mean this in a personal way—as far as I can tell, we all have this bias.
There's a common pattern where people underestimate the provocation in their own comments by (say) 10x and overestimate the provocation in the other person's comments by another 10x. Put those together and you get a 100x distortion in self/other perception. That's a lot of skew.
I don't mean this in a personal way—as far as I can tell, we all have this bias.