Originally Posted by BACKCHECK!!!
OK, I can see why people are having fun here, and I got some lulz out of this thread too. Having silly arguments with an idiot can be entertaining sometimes, in a stupid kind of way.
And I don't want to be the fun police here, but it shouldn't take too long to realize that Sparks1 has some kind of very real mental illness. She seems to have a wide variety of psychiatric signs and symptoms (obsessional thoughts, memory disturbances, persecutory delusions, avoidant behaviors, lack of empathy, etc), and has been in a decade long conversation in which she has never absorbed a single thing that anyone has said to her.
My point here is that there's a lot of lip service given to how people with mental illnesses shouldn't be stigmatized and ridiculed.
But then you see (for example) Charlie Sheen in a floridly manic state, and everyone in the western world mocks and laughs at him. Yeah, some of the jokes are funny, but are made a lot less funny by the fact that he actually does have a serious a mental illness, which has cost him his job, his marriage, etc.
And here we have someone with a problem on CP, and they're being baited and belittled for days. Like I said, I got some laughs out of this thread too. And I doubt it will make any difference in Sparks1's case, because she's just running on autopilot now, repeating the same chat-forum interactions countless times over.
But I just hope that the next time you say to yourself "Haha, that person's completely crazy", you take a second to consider that they maybe they actually *do* have a mental illness, and that maybe we shouldn't be laughing.
/sermon
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