As it turns out, the majority of folks are just people trying to get by, and if you're nice enough to them, they'll be nice enough to you.

The problem with most terminally online people is that their social lives ended when they left school, which is when the population of arseholes is at its highest. Everybody is trying to impress everybody else, even at the cost of others.

But a lot of those same people tend to chill off as they mature into adults and become less self-centred. There are still absolutely arsehole adults, but nowhere near as many as the terminally online expect there to be.

What I observed was people willing to throw someone off a balcony simply because he set the curve. People are either murderers, or murderer-enablers.

When people start punishing abusers to the point where it stats looking like a holocaust, maybe then they can be redeemed. Until the abusers are traumatized into submission, there will be no justice.

There’s more than one common denominator. You forgot at least human nature.

One person can only do so much; if the rest of society refuses to act in good faith out of malignant narcissism, what do you expect me to do?

The last person I failed to take seriously stuck a bowie knife in my gut; I lost a yard of intestine to that.

I don’t give people an inch - especially after that.

Of course not - you need to protect your narcissistic world view.

I promise you I don’t give people an inch - and that’s all that matters. Disbelieve the rest if you want.