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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
…you think a social situation exclusively refers to like… a party… or a church “social,” don’t you? lol
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I know that there is a difference between face-to-face communication and written communication, and the shortcuts and elisions appropriate for one (where much of the meaning is conveyed non-verbally) are not appropriate for the other (where everything depends on the bare text). You clearly don't get that.
Now as to your point:
I have, in the strict sense, NO ‘sympathy’ for Oliver Kylington. Cheap talk on a message forum about a person you have never met, who doesn't know you from Adam, and whom you have no intention of helping in any way, doesn't count as sympathy to me. Accusing other people of lacking sympathy in such a context is just egotistical preening at best; bullying at worst. It amounts to saying, ‘You are a bad person because you do not repeat the magic words that I use to prove I am a good person.’ But it's all just words, with no possibility that it will ever issue in any kind of action. You don't prove that you are a good person by yapping on a message board about how much you care; though simple people may occasionally be fooled by it.
I'm guessing you are another of these people who have never heard the expression, ‘Actions speak louder than words.’ Talking about how much you feel for other people doesn't make you a good person. It can mean no more than that you are lying.