[Solarsail]

While I do agree that the case highlighted shows a rather uncharitable reaction to said personal anecdote, I suspect your advice could be turned around itself in a number of circumstances. Live and let live. Somebody tells a personal story with a somewhat-incomplete perspective? Live and let live. Some stranger on the internet paints the sky as falling because of said anecdote being shared? Live and let live. Both acts remind me of the old 'someone's wrong on the internet' XKCD comic.

[haberman]

I don't think you understand the power of group ridicule. There is a difference between someone being wrong somewhere (as in XKCD) and someone attacking things about your personhood, while making heady moral arguments that their attacks are justified and your defenses are not.