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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 8974294" data-attributes="member: 59816">There's something about social media that makes everyone oversensitive. I think it's entirely to do with communicating in writing (and that most people aren't very good at it). Professional writers sometimes struggle to get a character's feelings across. I can't see why we'd expect anyone to correctly express their thoughts and feelings in text. On top of THAT, we then expect everyone to correctly READ those thoughts and feelings without making any mistakes in their inference. If I said, "I hate the Druid with the passion of a thousand exploding suns", when face-to-face, you'd probably get that I was kidding about the suns, but might be serious that I don't like the Druid, but here we'd probably get into an argument about exactly how many suns are allowed to explode to rank what level of passion.You and I differ on this only in a matter of mild degree. I wish everyone was more charitable to each other, too. But I think that the only way to achieve the kind of charity that I'd like to see out of posters is to be extra charitable myself to the ones who are failing to be charitable to others. Does that make any sense?At any rate, when it comes to hyperbole, I feel like the first step is generally to acknowledge it for what it is: An exaggeration not meant to be taken literally. The "not meant" part is key. If you give people the benefit that they didn't mean what they said to be taken literally, you wind up in a lot less arguments. (Generally. Arguments are hard to avoid on here.)</blockquote>

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