>>114194583Nothing.
Nothing at all whatsoever.
That's the issue: When you fall into a thought cult, even if it's one that only you are a part of, you don't act rationally. You fight for or against that cult's interests. You fight for self satisfaction.
I myself am prey to that. I decided early that I was going to hate Bioshock Infinite for really dumb reasons, and I've actively called the game bad, and never fought the urge just because I have fun doing it. It's an easy target, there's a lot a hack away with it.
But one thing I never did was insult someone for it, or say the writers themselves are fucking hacks even if I'm insulting that particular work. That's what these internet activists can't do, they join their little thought cults and, to stick with it, they drop all of their empathy and actively attack people. They let their hate spread towards live targets rather than the ideas by themselves. To them, it's not a Wrong vs Right, it's a I'M right, and YOU'RE wrong. So when someone comes up, who may have gone against them, and isn't even addressing the bad ideas they dislike, they still attack them. And this is something they practice, and make a learned behavior. Eventually, they don't even notice they're doing it, they just do it, they just attack others.
I blame Twitter most of all for fostering this type of Sociopathic behavior.
