Why does it feel good to fight with people on the internet?

mysunnyboy

Well-Known Member
I’ve been online since the early 90’s and during that time I’ve figured out that arguing with someone about anything is pointless.

I believe the people who engage in online arguments do so because it strokes their own ego. Kind of an adversarial based confirmation bias.
Kinda like stepping in puddle instead of walking around it.
 

WannabeWizard2003

Well-Known Member
Welcome fellow chick! Meet @Laughing Grass as we were just talking that we needed other chicks here with us! Yay welcome!
Thanks for the welcome, but unfortunately I don't think I am the chick you're looking for. My knowledge on this hobby is limited and really I don't get along well with the general public. My plan is more to sit back and read articles rather than trying to fit in and share my experiences with the rest of you. Hey it's just my way of keeping myself happy, so please don't take it personal.
 

mysunnyboy

Well-Known Member
Thanks for the welcome, but unfortunately I don't think I am the chick you're looking for. My knowledge on this hobby is limited and really I don't get along well with the general public. My plan is more to sit back and read articles rather than trying to fit in and share my experiences with the rest of you. Hey it's just my way of keeping myself happy, so please don't take it personal.
It’s all good.
 

LetsGetCritical

Well-Known Member
In the real world and the major raise in public surveillance, most adults that give out a beating would be charged with assault and detained. At least I would hope so for me and my families safety. As a woman that was forced into kick boxing at a young age and continued through to a fighting career in my early 20s; in my later years the rush of the fight isn't there anymore. My hands constantly hurt, my shins ache when it rains and honestly I constantly ponder if it was worth it. When you rush into a fight irl on the street, there are way more dangers such as aids, weapons and a myriad of other things that come into play just to teach a stranger a lesson. Not worth it! Fuck that stranger because they are obviously not happy with their life and I couldn't be more apathetic how they live their seething lifestyle. You really want to fight? Get in the ring, where there is more than enough people to make sure you don't find yourself in a life threatening situation (but yet it still happens). There is a reason why most fight clubs (in lieu of a better term) preach to you that you shouldn't start a fight on the street. They cement it in your head to walk away. If you a good fighter, one street fight can be the end of your career (you would be kicking ass but the courts are going to hit you with the max sentence).


Hey what's wrong with Star Wars? :(


nah most people would like that too much HAHA
Fightings overrated .last year I broke smashed my
In the real world and the major raise in public surveillance, most adults that give out a beating would be charged with assault and detained. At least I would hope so for me and my families safety. As a woman that was forced into kick boxing at a young age and continued through to a fighting career in my early 20s; in my later years the rush of the fight isn't there anymore. My hands constantly hurt, my shins ache when it rains and honestly I constantly ponder if it was worth it. When you rush into a fight irl on the street, there are way more dangers such as aids, weapons and a myriad of other things that come into play just to teach a stranger a lesson. Not worth it! Fuck that stranger because they are obviously not happy with their life and I couldn't be more apathetic how they live their seething lifestyle. You really want to fight? Get in the ring, where there is more than enough people to make sure you don't find yourself in a life threatening situation (but yet it still happens). There is a reason why most fight clubs (in lieu of a better term) preach to you that you shouldn't start a fight on the street. They cement it in your head to walk away. If you a good fighter, one street fight can be the end of your career (you would be kicking ass but the courts are going to hit you with the max sentence).


Hey what's wrong with Star Wars? :(


nah most people would like that too much HAHA
I do Muay Thai and had to use it not that long ago ended up disintegrating my metacarpal on someone's skull. Physical fightings overrated
 

WannabeWizard2003

Well-Known Member
Fightings overrated .last year I broke smashed my
I do Muay Thai and had to use it not that long ago ended up disintegrating my metacarpal on someone's skull. Physical fightings overrated
Injuries suck, hope you had a speedy recovery. I love how athletic training would make me feel. I still recommend training in a controlled environment over going to look for a fight <3 Definitely nice to know when forced to protect yourself. Glad to hear you came out on top, sorry about your hand though :(
 

StonedGardener

Well-Known Member
I think many people have an appetite for "fighting"/clashing/going at it "tooth and nail". Perhaps it comes naturally(Mr. DNA) or the result of a life experience....maybe. The ceaseless mudslinging, character assassination, ridicule and threats. Lots of cat and dog fights flying around here. Plenty of members ready and waiting to pounce upon even totally innocuous posts, the bushwhack , blitzkrieg , bum-rush. I've noticed the threat " expect the Fed's at your door" is a popular cliche. I like getting along with people , meeting great dudes and having good exchanges but what the hell, if ya get a rush from "fighting", go for it. Whatever turns you on. It's only words, not the "sticks and stones".
 

WannabeWizard2003

Well-Known Member
Hey are you on any forums where this is the opposite. Like mostly women and the guys are the minority? Or is every forum online mostly dominated by men?
To answer your question: Yes mostly every forum is dominated by men, at least the things that interest me. Computers, automotive, martial arts, hema, growing, and tbh I get really tired of the ego's (not that I have to explain myself but there it is).... The truth is I don't think I would have listened to anyone else but sunny. It's just a shame for me really.

@mysunnyboy went above and beyond to help me out, and I am so thankful she did. :)
 

garybo

Well-Known Member
You want to have a great few months. Turn off the news. Get off social media. Just post about pot. Be concerned with the things active in your life. The people around you, the hobbies you have. The people you love. The bud you love. I can't change a fuckin thing about the world, I can just make my own world and orbit a bit better.
Great advise.
 
humans are not wired to sustain their sociality on the internet, yet the experience is too appealing, the humanity spirit is but discovering the tool, and our most childish and blind naivety lead the discovering experience. all normal, that's our nature in a peculiar new and treacherous environment, we're just bamboozled cause we are used to think better. do better is the way
 

karl47777

Member
In such cases, you just want to assert yourself. And sometimes in life, it is difficult, to tell the truth, and your opinion to a person's face. Especially when you are right. Who knows what the reaction will be. And when it happens by correspondence. Then it is clear that you are not afraid to express your point of view. In general, it's a bad character trait. But I notice that I quite often encounter such situations. Especially when I sit on a platform like Funchatt. There are a lot of chats there with different people. And I just love to debate and roughly speaking humiliate them for being wrong. But eventually, they just get offended and end the chat. Weaklings! LOL. I would defend my point of view to the very last.
 

tkufoS

Well-Known Member
Didn't read whole thread after 2nd post. But , probably cuz you can't be socked in in the cocksucker ! Like irl
 

Grojaks

Well-Known Member
Cause you’re too chicken shit to argue in person for fear of a beating, thus resorting to internet fights where you can’t be harmed and are able to speak your “truth” and walk away from the internet as a winner before another can retort your “truth”.
 

NanoGadget

Well-Known Member
the internet has provided everyone a level of connectedness and visibility previously unavailable to all but the rich, the famous, and the powerful.

Nothing in our millions of years of evolution or our thousands of years of social progress has prepared us for it. Now every human, genius or idiot, has the ability to scattergun whatever is going on in their brain into the digital ether.

People tend to clump together with like minded folks and some really fucked up, destructive echo chambers emerge continuously. Now you have a bunch of misinformed, supremely confident idiots who've been emboldened by their Qanon FB group or the pseudoscience blogspot page they follow, vomiting nonsense into peoples news feeds.

People are bad enough at informed objectivity to begin with. Unlimited quantities of unverified information and unsupported opinions has not helped the matter.
 
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