(07-10-2023, 03:30 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(07-10-2023, 03:15 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Oh no worries, I did that a long time ago. I just think it's funny that those who want to claim the Virtuous Victim mantel turn out to act the same way the first chance they get. I mean, I always knew that would be the case because history is pretty clear about it, but they seem to think they aren't exactly the same as those they decry. Everyone is the hero in their own story after all.

I doubt your final comment is actually very indicative of the human experience for many people. 
Most folks I know don't exude that at all, and many others clearly express something quite different about how they view themselves.

Very few behave like they are the hero in the story in real life.  
Most people on the internet do, though.  
For some engineers like me, being behind the keyboard frees us to gather our thoughts and state them in a way that real life never does.  So we have the dichotomy between our online lives and our real lives. 
But for most people, they behave in real life similar to how they behave online, it's just that, the ones who don't feel a need to be the hero of the story, they're not online at all, at least not in an old text forum with screennames. They self select out, and it skews the picture.

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