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Re:The Trance of Dysfunction: Why Trolls Have Come to Domina... by BadassFractal on Friday August 18, 2017 @07:32PM (#15050554)
That's a pretty interesting though, never thought of it that way. Makes sense that the more things you can talk about, the less shock value they can extract from it.
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Re:The Trance of Dysfunction: Why Trolls Have Come to Domina... by QAPereo on Friday August 18, 2017 @07:42PM (#15050613)
From another perspective you could say they're lowering the bar overall, and you're saying the only way to deal with them is that you de-sensitize yourself to them. Nietzsche springs to mind, about gazing into abysses and battling monsters.
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