Re: The Reputation Hilarity/Insanity thread New version
Hatred can be a fickle emotion to experience, but to me, I only ever respond to hatred with indifference, or shrilly glee.
Why? Because saying something, regardless how incorrect or wrong to anyone's ears, should never provoke a response built from hateful anger.
If I've offended someone to the point of hatred, I won't care WHAT I said that got them to that point, I'll be too busy desperately holding back chuckles imagining the pathetic little ant of a person who's so emotionally unstable that a mere cluster of words was enough to set them off on a miniature tangent..
And then I imagine how someone like that lives on a day to day basis, and at that point the laughter is no longer able to be contained.
If they were merely offended, I'll take notice.. If they were honestly hurt, or confused, I'll own up to it, pay my due, or help explain the matter.. But responding to what I say with any kind of genuine spite? I don't care who they are, what they do, or how bad of a day they had, that person has then marked themselves as a pathetic worm in my eyes, and it'll take 3x the amount of hatred they payed in reverse to undo that impression.
Now I know your mother, and possibly your neighbors told you otherwise, but it is perfectly fine and natural to judge people, but there are two main ways to do it properly..
Either you start off every person at the top of the bar, and give them outright respect, letting them either piss it away by disappointing you or showing you how right you were to give them that respect by having said given respect enable them to show a side of themselves few others get to see..
Or you take the more grim but safer route of setting every person at the BOTTOM of the bar, and either letting them work their way up the ladder, or show you how right you were to think nothing of them.
The correct path may not always be harder, but the right one usually is..
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