From the time I was in 7th grade to about the time I was in 9th grade, I realized that being offended by insults is stupid. I believe that if someone is insulted, they should reflect on themself and should try to use the truthful parts of the insult as helpful feedback on how they can improve as a person, and that they should ignore the parts of the insult that cannot be used as helpful feedback.
However, I am pretty stupid, so I want to know why more people don’t have this philosophy.
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Humans, you say?
We get it, you’re not a human
I am human, but I don’t think I’m very good at humaning.
one day you’ll pass the turing test dw
The problem is that some insults are downright hateful and require push back so they are not said again
Because humans are illogical :D!
Why live life dictated by logic when you can be silly 
But why let the insult bother you in the first place? Why not be indifferent to it being said again?
You see most of people arent you
Btw humans take everything from the enviroment so if a kid sees everyone offended off the insults then it will most likely do same, its basiclly monkey see monkey do but humans
(Which actually summers up our species pretty well 
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To be clearer I’m really talking about letting people know the consequences of their actions. I understand taking the high roaad with petty insults about someone’s character or hobbies but there has to be a line that can’t be crossed too
Wait maybe I don’t quite understand what you mean by being offended, can you give an example please?
Whenever humans get insulted and get mad about being insulted.
They were ignorant children. All of that was beaten into them by ignorant adults. What could they have done to fight back against that?
Its natural human instinct to reply to aggression with aggression
I believe that is is really case-dependent. Some people would truly benefit from what you are saying about ignoring the hecklers and just taking the true criticism and maybe that should be the default reaction.
Others would not
Humans are social animals, insults are a mean to reject someone.
If one is highly attached to their social life, they will evidently find insults to be offensive. This isn’t because they are magically offended by them, but because being insulted implies being rejected by a group and therefore not being supported it, meaning that they now have less chances at survival and anything else.
This makes being insulted hurtful to your livelihood, causing a negative reaction in order to not be worthy of insults again, prevention.
At least this is what I think. I’m no scientist whatsoever, all I know is that negative feelings exist to discourage, avoid, and prevent, while positive ones exist to encourage, indulge, and allow.
I mean, it should be simple and easy.
Pride and ego! Oh and also because being young and yada yada, I am usually the passive aggressive type so whenever I feel offended by another person I’d often feel good by proving them wrong (indirectly) or seeing that they are worse than me.
I can’t really care if said insult or offense is in the internet, since you know, I don’t actually see them face to face lol.
Your point about ignoring insults makes sense… in a vaccum. you have to remeber not all insults are useful, some are just meant to degrade you and no one likes being degraded. treating every insult as feedback risks excusing toxic behavior and probably changes you as a person, potentially in a way you don’t want to be changed. feeling offense is probably a natural evolutionary instinct the human species gained when we started to become more social
