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Old 04-20-2012, 01:05 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by flamesfever View Post
I don't doubt the charitable side to your nature, but are you not giving on one side and taking on the other, in terms of lowering a person's self worth by being blunt and sarcastic to them? I can see this being particularly harmful when dealing with children.
If someone does something that pisses me off, I tell them. If someone asks me my opinion, I will give it to them. If someone doesn't ask my opinion, I don't give it to them.

If they want someone to hold their hand and tell them everything is all right and they are good people, then they shouldn't be talking to me.

Just to clarify, since you brought up kids, this doesn't apply to them. I am talking about people who are my peers or people who otherwise have normal conversations with me in the course of my daily life. I assumed that was the context the OP made his post in and wasn't complaining about children in his life hating him because he was a jerk.
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