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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Not my mistake.
It is a social situation. And it’s weird you don’t think it is. It’s even weirder that’s what you got hung up on.
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It is your mistake.
This is written communication.
Speech has been around for at least 200,000 years, and in all that time, except for very specialized circumstances (such as conversation-books for the profoundly deaf), people have never used writing to communicate in social situations.
This is something entirely different, and it does not work like face-to-face contact. Here, for instance, we have trolls who don't even regard other posters as human beings (I don't mean you; I'm sure you can think of examples). In a real social situation, such people would be shown the door and never invited back. Here, they just keep spawning new accounts under different aliases. The number of people who can carry on a genuine social conversation is limited; here, we can have scores of people participating in a thread.
It's not the same thing at all, and frankly, if you think it is, then your reactions are naturally going to be calibrated wrong.