Rant on "way gone wrong". in Off Topic
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Ok, so noone reads too much and goes "What?", this topic is mostly just me blowing off steam and trying to find understanding in a situation that lacks understanding. Keeping in mind of course that a lot of this rant may seem like I'm being a hypocrite (depending on if your opinion on me is that I lack maturity as you've seen me, or in my writing in this rant). I am simply asking that you keep an open mind. Also, some people may know why I'm writing this, or what caused me to write it (as it's obviously no puzzle when you finish reading the rant).
Anyway, done with my unstructured introduction, onto the rant.
BYOND has many people, of many interests and opinions. However, can people be heartless? Sure. Can people be apathetic? Sure. Apathy and heartlessness could go hand in hand sometimes. When someone feels apathetic to the interests of a group, or to one person. I'm sure we've all seen many examples at many times. But the thing is, how hard can apathy and heartlessness as a team go unseen? Pretty long, as I have discovered. As much as we all would like to think we never did, we have all been apathetic and heartless through ignorance before. But what causes the ignorance? Apathy and heartlessness, ironically enough. Something has to spark the cycle though, correct? We can all produce theories and assumptions on this, as many of us have one of the many correct answers in mind no doubt.
Lets use one example as a spark. Peer pressure. We have all heard how this could be bad and good, with the doing drugs and smoking, all of it affecting today's youth because of peer pressure. But some places have a much easier surrounding to be affected by peer pressure. Not many would suspect the Internet though. Partially because many people act differently on the Internet by nature, or try to. So, people gain different judgement, and opinions. Which means a different group of people is hung out with. But this does not mean that those people are bad. It just means you may not think they're very worth hanging around with if you knew them in real life, or vise versa. So your judgement can change entirely from your real life choices, even under real life peer pressure. This could hit home with how some people judge others, or what they do.
This is of course, assuming that the person you're talking to is still as human as you, and that the way that they DO act, is the way you should judge them by. Simply because that is your only interpretation of who they are. As many people judge on what they think, and who they are, many others judge on actions. Is judging on actions rather then personality correct? It's simply a matter of opinion.
I have seen eight cases over the past couple months however (getting to where this rant starts talking about actual BYOND events). People that like how I acted on the Internet by personality, ones that liked my actions, and people that hated both. I've also seen four groups that judged me based on how I acted in real life (on BYOND, as I tried to act as much like myself as possible at the time of the test), just the same as the people who hated me, or liked me. Using incognito keys along with this one of course. I have seen mostly that groups judge based on how others think first. For example; Bob hates Moe. Jim is friends with Bob. Jim meets Moe. Bob tells Jim that Moe is {Insert strong and influential insult of ignorance towards Moe here}. This meets right back to the first paragraph, does it not? Now Jim also hates Moe, and thus, is a victim of apathetic heartlessness, because of his ignorance of the ability to judge Moe himself.
As little as we would all like to admit it...this happens on BYOND all the time. Not necessarily in that form...but if someone hates you, then your friends may hate that someone out of ignorance.
However...this is not the case all the time. Many people have a mind of their own beyond the sort of things that this is an example of. Those people have a little gift called individualism. As I've finally got down to "a" point (among others I probably plowed through earlier in this rank), BYOND does have many people, who are slaves to others' opinions, and less who are not. Only today do I have enough info to prove this statistically.
Hope you enjoyed this rant as much as I did having to cut it short (lucky you) due to getting a headache. Looking forward to some "opinions" on this, if any.
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Anyway, its something to ponder over.