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Originally Posted by DoubleF
Isn't it mostly the intention?
There's the saying, "Don't automatically associate malice with something easily explainable by incompetence."
Some people say things they don't actually mean. It's like a sarcastic, metaphor/allegory riddled way of communication. Like razzing. I don't prefer conversing this way at all or have friends that converse this way, but it's not really evil... I think.
Like: "OMFG I love you, you dumb as bitch. I hope your life goes to hell and we can laugh about how #### you are over drinks next week."
They're not bad/evil for saying this assuming they don't have negative or ill intentions in the way they say it (they don't mean it in that way). But I'd associate it with some form of incompetence of social interaction or appropriate selection of verbiage (ie: read the room) than malice.
They way I summarize it, is it feels easy to be condescending if the online response was made in real life.
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Well that got deep in a hurry.
I was more referring to people who are just natural pranksters that intentionally give people the wrong idea initially and follow it up with a delayed punchline where the other person ends up basically laughing at themselves for getting even slightly worked up over it.