[shanemlk]

Touché, valid point. But someone's gotta break the Matrix once in a while... at the end of the day, this is just a text based website, and I'm hammering keys. It wasn't like I was walking down the street yelling obscenities. It's OK, to be aggressive sometimes. Everything in moderation.

[hinkley]

It's okay to be loud sometimes. But in a large room? It's the group's sense of 'sometimes', that matters, not the individual's. In a big group it's always somebody's "sometime", unless you divide by the population.

[shanemlk]

Certainly. But there's also responsibility of the group members to understand what kind of topics and conversations they're about to enter. Facebook is divisive. It's a stressful topic. The crowd shouldn't click on a link about the 100th crime Facebook committed if the crowd is not ready for the gun fire. The crowd inherited an imperfect world, and it's okay to take a stand, because if the crowd doesn't stand for something, they fall for anything. In certain cultures, "swear words" don't even exist. If certain words deeply offend the crowd, they shouldn't blame other people, they should turn inward using introspection and ask themselves why they're so bothered by certain words written on a webpage. It's not like I hate Mark Zuckerburg with every fiber of my being. I'm sure there's some cool things about him. I'd love to sit down and have him show me his love for the video game Civilization, or what kind meats he likes cooking, or how he designed his smart home. But the topic at hand is business and legality. And frankly, I should be able to take as many shots as I want at him in the public sphere. Just because he's not personally inflicting violence on other humans, does not mean there's billions of lives at stake here. When people enter the ring, political correctness is entirely useless. It's not personal, it's "business".

“If I don’t scream, if I don’t say something, then no one’s going to say anything.”

“I care. I care about everything. Sometimes not giving a f#%k is caring the most.”

“The truth that hurts is the same truth that heals.”