The Better Part…

Sometimes when life starts tossing rotten lemons at you, experience dictates that you turn the other cheek and take the better part of valor by not responding to whatever thing you think you should respond to. One of the hallmarks of an immature person is someone who reacts eye-for-eye and tooth-for-tooth. Like responses to injury are an Old Testament, Moses thing. It’s a theoretically immature people (collectively) unprepared for the responsibility of a higher covenant. Since this is not a religious post, but a post on maturity, the outcome lends itself to flame wars online.

I won’t point anywhere specifically, but what is interesting to me is that many aspects of the internet are created by individuals who are talented at programming but do not have the emotional capacity to handle criticism, especially competitive criticism heaped on by peers. What makes all of this pertinent is that when you use the internet and you find something you like, chances are it was developed (or at least programmed) by someone who was sub-30, has a lot of talent, and also has very little to know control over emotions and is willing and able to speak up and sabotage other people.

And this is why, on the internet, flame wars are so dangerous. Because you will, more than likely, cause someone to get made who is emotionally immature and who knows more about how the internet works than you. The emotional immature is the actual problem.

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