Agreed.
Though, here's the thing. When relating to (or at least observing) other people when you have an extremely developed resistance to social pressure aka thick skin, you often see what others overlook. And it's sometimes tricky because too often, you have to go back down a notch to still be able to relate aka, you're still human.
It's like, you're almost too nihilistic or stoic (whatever) because of what you have gone through in life and you sort of find it funny when people take things too personally. In this case, a miscalibrated attempt, or a forum experiment to gather feedback, for (marketing, value providing and menacing purposes). YET still remain a fully functional human being.
On the other hand, any person that achieves a purely nihilistic
perspective (which is advantageous in some ways) BUT have lost their ability to relate to others are what we call "crazy peeps".
I write about Metacognition by the way. Your reply is completely logical and valid. My point is, from the Meta context, what was seen in this thread, there was a lack of choice, between stimulus-response.
@AndrewNC 's post was the stimulus. And the responses where "humanly predictable". When you operate from Meta, instead of just being strictly logical and computer like in your response, you retain the ability to be impartial and distance yourself from what's happening and from there, you're operating on a totally different level.
I was quite glad that
@Vigilante said he literally does not care. That's badass.
There's also the matter of context. In this case, Andrew broke the commandment of context. He didn't provide any. The surface level appearance of the post dominated.
He just went on with the deed and this hints at me that he was not Meta when he posted. Maybe, maybe not. But most probably. So few people can go Meta.
This also touches on the topic of boundaries and the grey area between being assertive and not taking it personally.
I also noticed that this kind of thing happens all the time, everywhere. From our families, friends to romantic relationships.
A loose random example : Your girlfriend/wife made you wait at the restaurant for 2 hours for whatever reason. This was the second time she did it. And you love her so much.
Do you get angry in an instant? Do you cut her off and ignore her? Do you clarify boundaries? Do you break up with her? Do you brush it off and act like nothing happened?
If you were Meta and your woman was not, you're gonna have to make sacrifices to lead the situation to a direction you desire.
Stimulus. Response. Do you have a choice?