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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6862961" data-attributes="member: 6701872">I know you aren't being serious about equating &quot;punch-stick 5 bucks to your face&quot; and &quot;give you 5 bucks&quot;, so I'll just leave the conversation at this: find a way to give someone 5 bucks, that's it - end of action, no special riders, no contextual delivery method - and it be belittling to that person.It is possible to feel sad about anything, and even nothing at all. That doesn't mean that whatever you end up feeling sad about is automatically someone else making you feel that way.If someone laughs at your post, you don't have any kind of sign whether it is a genuine laugh or an attempt to belittle you with just the &quot;so and so laughed at your post&quot; notification, so it is up to you the recipient to choose for yourself whether to take that as &quot;person must have thought I was funny and is giving me props for it,&quot; or as &quot;person is making me sad.&quot; Since this is the internet and none of it actually matters, I encourage everyone to choose the former.I choose to click laugh on posts I find humorous, that's what it is for. That ends up making anyone sad, that is absolutely on them - there is a difference between someone being disrespectful, and someone feeling disrespected.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6862961, member: 6701872"] I know you aren't being serious about equating "punch-stick 5 bucks to your face" and "give you 5 bucks", so I'll just leave the conversation at this: find a way to give someone 5 bucks, that's it - end of action, no special riders, no contextual delivery method - and it be belittling to that person. It is possible to feel sad about anything, and even nothing at all. That doesn't mean that whatever you end up feeling sad about is automatically someone else making you feel that way. If someone laughs at your post, you don't have any kind of sign whether it is a genuine laugh or an attempt to belittle you with just the "so and so laughed at your post" notification, so it is up to you the recipient to choose for yourself whether to take that as "person must have thought I was funny and is giving me props for it," or as "person is making me sad." Since this is the internet and none of it actually matters, I encourage everyone to choose the former. I choose to click laugh on posts I find humorous, that's what it is for. That ends up making anyone sad, that is absolutely on them - there is a difference between someone being disrespectful, and someone feeling disrespected. [/QUOTE]

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