OT -- Re: random cover of a range

[Alexander Pánek]

Anonymous Coward wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> It takes a weak person to be harmed by words.
> 
> Let me put it this way: if you've been picked on, put down, *hunted* by the people around you and generally treated as a sub-human piece of worthless garbage for over eight years of your life across both primary and secondary school, often with no friends or even acquaintances for years at a time and came out completely and utterly unscathed, then you are obviously a robot and won't mind when I remove your head.  Because otherwise you have NO FUCKING RIGHT to say that.
> 
> If you've really gone through what I have and weren't affected, then I guess you're just a better person than I.

I’ve been through that. Almost my whole childhood and youth consisted of 
being discriminated by class-/sportsmates. But after all I learned a lot 
just by that - granted, it wasn’t nice and easy but I am pretty damn 
sure I learned more about the human nature and group dynamics than those 
people picking on me, or anyone else.

This didn’t make me a nicer person or whatnot, but at some point you 
start taking every statement with a grain of salt, maybe even laugh 
about yourself if there’s a reason to. That’s a kind of tolerance that 
lets you get to know people better, since not everyone thinks twice 
before saying something, thus sometimes coming out too harsh or even 
insulting. If you get past that, you mostly find quite interesting 
people who also able to overcome their own insecurity once you open up a 
bit. After all most

“Taking harm by words” is a very common phrase... I don’t take any harm 
if someone swears around like a maniac or talks complete and utter 
bullshit about me, my family or whatnot (however, I did as a kid). But I 
do take harm if someone actively doesn’t show respect in my views, work 
or feelings. Best example for this is a recent argument between a former 
user in #d and myself. I banned him because of his complete disrespect 
for me - some people understood it, many didn’t. I on the other hand 
didn’t understand how people could tolerate such behaviour. It really 
made me angry.

Ad OT-topic: I was a bit puzzled by the way John brought this issue up, 
but I completely agree with him. Having content mixed up like that is 
just plain unprofessional to me - especially if you contribute quite a 
lot. The possibility to be referenced by someone else is quite high in 
that case and... well... D has nothing to do with furry or yiffi or 
whatever. I don’t start drawing at work either (well, except diagrams 
for my own understanding). *shrug* Just create a blog for your 
programming stuff and one for your personal stuff, just like most people 
do in case of email accounts.

Also: wtf guys - stop going all “omg u r so religious”, you nazis. 
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