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Originally Posted by resiz3d
I'm applying real world morality to the internet. Would you have said this face-to-face? Maybe you would have, but you would have been a jerk for doing so. Like a lot of people on the internet, you're hiding behind "I was just giving my opinion".
Thank goodness you're here to make sure people don't get too puffed up with themselves. Good job, put them in their place!
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Holding back an opinion just because he could "hurt" someone else isn't moral, it is childish. That isn't how the real world works, at least not a place I been to. Don't confuse what you personally consider polite behavior with morality, they aren't the same thing. In fact, if I held back the comment because I thought it would bother him, I find that far more amoral than what you suggest because it shows I don't even care about his art, that is my view but I doubt you can understand that. I stated it because I thought it could help him improve or open a conversation rather than rant.
I didn't insult him, I didn't belittle his work. I stated it was "not his best." That doesn't even fall into it being bad at all. I have had teachers, bosses as well as my parents and even classmates and co-workers tell me that level of comment and often in verbatim. I have never once found it to be a jerk move in any sense of that term. If telling someone that their work wasn't there best is a being a jerk then you have a pretty low threshold for what is considered to be jerk behavior. What I did was not a jerk behavior unless you have a completely unrealistic standard which you clearly do.
And you are a hypocrite on top of everything else if you list your reason it boils down to you are a jerk because you weren't specific, even though not your best falls in the same level of your examples whether you accept that or not I don't give a rat ass.
And no, I am not looking for sympathy, but I doubt you can understand that sometimes it helps to rant because it is WTF that was an overreaction to something harmless. And a troll is something posted solely to annoy someone so lets add that to the list of things you gotten wrong in one post. If I was trolling, I wouldn't have made this topic because getting him to ignore me is the ultimate achievement for a troll as it got under that persons skin to the point to ignore me.
You have no idea why I posted this, no idea what the difference between what you find polite is vs real world morality is (btw, there is no real world morality as that implies an objective standard and there isn't one but I won't count that against you as it is a very common mistake), no idea what an internet troll is and you are a hypocrite. That is 4 errors you made.