Convos like that show that really, this forum is one of the few vestiges of the constructive art of shaming. For millenia, small actions, characteristics, and behaviors brought out animosity and mockery to some detriment, but mostly positive outcomes. Kids who habitually lie and aggrandize falsehoods got made fun and stopped to end the teasing. STD's were halted in their tracks after everyone heard the town whore tagged all the players in the back of her dad's vw vanagon. Chances are if you have a thread here your first impulse is childish anger and self-righteous indignation, but if you think a bit and look at why you're being mentioned here there's probably an issue that needs fixing if you want to be healthy/happy/sane in the long run. Most here like laughing about it, but we don't want to see things explode and do severe damage. At most I hope for discomfort but it's always nice to see someone clean up and live straight.
This new thing where only positivity is allowed is creating a world of crackheads, deathfats, pillheads, sex fiends, and diddlers telling each other there's nothing wrong with their way of life and they're doing fine as is.
