If you mistake my attack on an idea (or worse, a news item) as a personal attack on you… well, you have just illustrated the entire problem, in perfect clarity. We are not the things we spread (often like diseases) on fb.

If these are -your thoughts- and I attack them, that might be a bit more personal. But it is still about ideas, not people.

If you post some toxic meme, and I go after that (and I will), be sure of one thing: I am on your side, and I am willing to risk upsetting you in order to make it clear that your behavior is regressive… it is devolving -away- from intelligence, while claiming to be its champion. I will rarely allow that kind of activity to proceed, no matter what the context.

If I was unconcerned, or just had my own agenda, I’d simply let you keep smacking yourself and all of your friends in the head with the brick you have fallen in love with sharing the damage of. I mean, seriously, when you see cognitive misfunction at that scale of severity, why would you stop to try to help if you didn’t care about the people whose minds were being thus destroyed?