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by rosser 3961 days ago
I hope you never find yourself in dire circumstances, and at the receiving end of this kind of callousness.
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I hope you do. It is not callousness that keeps people down, it is the failure of praise and positive reinforcement to be measured with realism and criticism. Even nasty namecalling can be constructive criticism, if someone is used to criticism and is introspective.

The most abject failures I've known in life are those who've been unable to recognize their mistakes, unable to handle criticism, and most clearly, those who've always had a bailout and never hit rock bottom.

Are you seriously wishing for someone to experience rock bottom and be met with, "Screw you, I'm improving myself!"?