Hey, wanted to respond to your comment because mine could come off as unhealthy.

I simply mean that I'm old enough, have experienced enough that there are very few people in the world that can say something which I haven't already been told or I haven't imagined myself. Some rando on the net can't possibly hurt.

But yeah, I don't mean to suggest suppressing your feelings.

Respectfully I don't really agree that this is a thing. There is an element of discerning that a person is just a jerk, misguided, dumb, or just shitposting without consequence due to anonymity or whatever and learning to disregard their opinions as irrelevant. That is, a lot of internet randos fall into this category.

But I also think if people don't trigger a warning as someone worth shunning that their criticism affects us, especially irl.

Experiencing a negative emotion is not always, or even most of the time, the same thing as being hurt.

I think that's going to fall into an argument of semantics.

Can you give an example?

I mean, I experience several negative emotions (frustration, anger, etc.) reading the average comment thread on the internet, but to say that I am “hurt” by them would be a grotesque exaggeration …

The scientific process leaves no room for emotions what so ever. Errors in the scientific process could have devastating results. If you can not separate your emotional well beings from the truth go and do something where your feelings are of no consequence.

If you can't separate "separating emotional well being from the truth" and "acknowledging you have emotions" you should go and take a vacation.

To an academic, they are never wrong, you just don’t understand. The more you try to argue will get swatted down as hateful.