Many of today's younger people do not possess the wherewithal to conjure up enough backbone to take constructive criticism. Instead, they retreat to their safe space. Furthermore, when their narrative or integrity is questioned, the have a proclivity to dox others and thus attempt to silence them. This is juvenile behavior and worthy of no respect whatsoever.
I grew up in the 60s. We didn't have cell phones, computers, and any form of social media. We had actual friends rather than fake ones. We ate mud as kids, never wore helmets when we raced our bikes, and didn't need warning labels on products. We didn't have seatbelts in our cars, 9-1-1 to call, fought bullies with a vengeance. Through these and many more of life's experiences and hazards, we survived, grew a backbone and learned how to live our life.
Unfortunately, the "everybody gets a participation trophy mentality" and a passing grade in school, has greatly diminished societies on a global scale. The elderly grow physically weak with age, but many of the young are brought up with considerable weakness and rarely recover.
Recently I commented rather politely on a growing problem on read.cash, namely plagiarism. I copied half of a post and ran it through a checker, and just as I expected, some 40% of it was stolen verbatim from a website. Rather than respond to my comment to provide a source to add credibility and save face, the person utilized a logical fallacy in the form of an ad hominem attack (yes, you with the Biblical name that wrote a Bible prophecy book). Then he blocked me before I could reply.
This is exactly the type of behavior I observe more and more each day. I didn't feel threatened, scared or intimidated in any way, but rather sad that the person is so thin-skinned. The inability to take honest and accurate constructive criticism is the antithesis of wisdom. I honestly feel sorry people who are so narrow-minded and egotistical, and who live in a world that shelters them behind identity politics and political correctness.
You may win the ideological battle for now, but your judgment draws near, a time when your deeds will be exposed and you will have no place to cower and hide.
Grow some thick skin. Argue logically when disagreements arise. Grow up. The world owes us nothing. And cease and desist from plagiarizing other people's work for profit. Now go ahead and blast away as you will, as I have the stones to take it.
