Reply To: Please Change my Mind and Point of View

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Honestly, it’s my feeling that ‘The Event’ is playing a part in this. As I said in a previous post relating to GW, I understand why people suddenly snap and just rant about perceived unfairness because I’ve been there myself. Regardless of where we are in the world, this giant mess has affected us all likely in ways we never really thought it could. Being stuck at home for so long means I spend more time on my computer reading things and I’m inevitably going to read things that I disagree with. I try my best to be reasonable and to know when is or isn’t a fair time to get involved, but that’s not always how it turns out.

We, as a community, are far from ‘toxic’, I’d say. We do quite well with friendly chats and keeping things civil. We have little spats of things here and there but they usually clean up well enough. As I think a couple of people have mentioned here, our hobby has been disrupted of late by global events. We didn’t ask for it, and it’s annoying, personally, to say the least, but it is what it is. I think there is a fair bit of anger in the world right now due to current circumstances and anger has a way of slipping into our everyday lives. It’s not a nice feeling, but it happens. Sometimes it just reaches a boiling point and over flows. I’ve been there before, and it usually doesn’t end up too well. I don’t think those lapses are indicative of a general shift in the nature of our community, merely a result of general increases in stress and uncertainty around the world.

It’s not easy to fight a sudden defensive urge when it comes to something you love, but I think the best thing to do at the moment is to recognise that sometimes someone loses their cool, and just try to remain calm ourselves. Retaliation for a lapse of control usually ends badly for everyone.