Which is an accurate representation of what I've seen happening online.
The problem is everyone wants people to be classed as good or bad. There's no grey areas, you're with us or you're against us. And it's all bullshit.
People are people, there are very few purely good or purely bad folks. The vast majority of us are shades of grey, and we have our times of exceptional good and great evil.
But no, everyone wants to be a good person, and for many of them how good they feel is directly proportional to how much worse than them other people are. So they go hunting for for them, and will magnify any chink in the armour out of all reasonable proportion.
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Date: 2009-05-15 01:58 am (UTC)The problem is everyone wants people to be classed as good or bad. There's no grey areas, you're with us or you're against us. And it's all bullshit.
People are people, there are very few purely good or purely bad folks. The vast majority of us are shades of grey, and we have our times of exceptional good and great evil.
But no, everyone wants to be a good person, and for many of them how good they feel is directly proportional to how much worse than them other people are. So they go hunting for for them, and will magnify any chink in the armour out of all reasonable proportion.