What I learned today on DU -

[GeoWilliam750]

43. No, there is no reason to empathise with such people

To hold in contempt and to pity might be mostly the same thing, except possibly that the object of contempt tends to have been more annoying, and the object of pity more pathetic.

I, too, cannot empathise with those people, and will not spend any minutes of my allotted years paying them the slightest attention, but am to some degree saddened that people who might otherwise lead better lives, instead drown in their cyber-bile - and are thus truly pitiful. They might have made their lives better, and by inference might have made a positive difference in world in which I live; that they have not saddens me, and makes the world in which we all live less, not more. I cannot help them, and will pay them no mind.

Their weakness does not become my strength, and I have no need of their approbation. I no longer have time to try to heal insatiable vampires, or to fill their limitless void - my minutes are numbered, and I have none for them. My time is mostly for the ten people about whom I deeply care.

I do have time however for what many of you on the HoF forum have to say - and believe that some of my minutes are worth spending here.

Whilst I may not agree with everything that everyone here says, I am better for having read many of the things you have posted and discussed here.