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I have a confession to make.
Against my better judgment, and regardless of previous negative experiences, now and then I make the mistake of engaging other human beings in the comment sections of various YouTube pages. Granted, I don't know any of these people personally. They could be from all walks of life, all levels of intellectual acumen, and completely spanning every kind of culture and subculture that exists. The one thing many of them have in common, however, is a desire to castigate what they view as idiocy, despite that oftentimes their targets are merely expressing different points of view. More vexing to me than their acrimonious or vulgar commentary, is why on earth I am still sometimes moved to leave any comments at all. "Put your hand in the fire," and so on. In the interest of total honesty, I can't recall if every comment I've ever left was positive at the onset. I can say that the greatest majority of my past comments started out as thoughtful and benign, but thanks to others who think it their duty to put me in my place, I have sometimes sunk to arguing. These exchanges never end well, and I am always left with a similar dirty feeling that a recovering addict feels when he or she backslides into the addiction. I feel disgusted with myself if I dwell on how much I have in common with these faceless YouTube pseudonyms, whose cognitive dissonance appears to completely obscure their own proclivities. So, as a form of self-improvement and repentance, from this day forward I will attempt to refrain from leaving comments on any more YouTube pages. The best way to rise above the muck is to simply not stomp around in it. |