Player Respect, where did it go?

[RickXRolled]

We just need safety warnings for people who are new to the internet. Mentally prepare them for everything they could possibly come in contact with. If you want to make use of the internet you will need to grow a thicker skin instead of taking everything seriously and personally. People that are easily offended or emotionally fragile really have no business on the internet.

[Chasely]

We just need safety warnings for people who are new to the internet. Mentally prepare them for everything they could possible come in contact with. If you want to make use of the internet you will need to grow a thicker skin instead of taking everything seriously and personally. People that are easily offended or emotionally fragile really have no business on the internet.

Or people could jsut become nicer. Everyone expects nice people to develop thicker skin. They want kind people to become callous and cold to the world. We need to stop enabling people's bad behavior. We all need thinner skin. We need more compassion for one another. We need to consider other people's feelings. We need a world where people aren't awful for the sake of being awful. Whether or not you believe a world like that can exist, it's something we need to encourage; not discourage.

When we tell people to develop a thicker skin, what we're really doing is excusing people's bad behavior. That's what we need to stop. We need to stop telling good people their feelings aren't important and start telling jerks their behavior isn't wanted.

[Lexia]

Or people could jsut become nicer. Everyone expects nice people to develop thicker skin. They want kind people to become callous and cold to the world. We need to stop enabling people's bad behavior. We all need thinner skin. We need more compassion for one another. We need to consider other people's feelings. We need a world where people aren't awful for the sake of being awful. Whether or not you believe a world like that can exist, it's something we need to encourage; not discourage.

When we tell people to develop a thicker skin, what we're really doing is excusing people's bad behavior. That's what we need to stop. We need to stop telling good people their feelings aren't important and start telling jerks their behavior isn't wanted.

They not saying to develop thicker skin to become cold and callous but people don't need to have such thin skin where offended by everything. Now if someone calls someone "a fat stupid ugly slob" ok that uncalled for and should be offended by that but if someone just says "those glasses are ugly" that nothing to be offended about. These are just examples I sure could fine plenty better examples out there of what I'm trying to say.

[Adire]

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I've had someone get extremely offended by me talking about insects. Bugs. How big the insects are here where I live, that's literally all I was talking about with someone and this person got offended enough to kick me from their LS. No joke.

Was I being mean/insensitive/whatever, or should they have just had thicker skin?

[Roegadyn_Bear]

When we tell people to develop a thicker skin, what we're really doing is excusing people's bad behavior.

We need to stop telling good people their feelings aren't important and start telling jerks their behavior isn't wanted.

No one has stated that their feelings aren't important. What has been stated repeatedly is that they need to be prepared against the inevitable encounter with someone who isn't a nice person (aka grow thicker skin). There's always going to be jerks out there, some crueler than others, and no amount of politeness or reasonable arguments is going to change that behavior if the jerks in question have no desire to change it to begin with. Most jerks ARE aware that their behavior isn't wanted, which encourages a few of them.

Of course, I don't expect a generation that wants to be shielded from anything that causes them any amount of emotional or mental stress to understand this.