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You're (presumably) a hairy, cynical bear who's built up a thick skin when it comes to the Internet. School-aged kids aren't going to have that resistance.
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Pretty much this. Verbally, Havoc, you're dismissing these things as "people/situations being stupid," when what you're really saying is, "they're not as good at this as me, ergo I can't understand why they have such a problem with it." The thing is, not everyone's as good at taking shit as we are. I'm sure you'll claim you've been good at it all along, but truth is, we all have to develop a thick skin. If you can't understand why people succumb to it, don't just assume that there's some illogical reason behind it, or that they're "weak."
We're all "weak," in some way or another, by ours or someone else's definition. That's the flaw in "social darwinism." I consider the closed-minded and ignorant to be "weak." Others might take my flaws and claim I'm "weak" for having them. Social Darwinim is little more than another word for "schadenfreude, and having a less-Germanic-but-still-smart-sounding word to describe that so we feel superior and less petty while we do it. Might as well use the word Schadenfreude.
Bottom line is, you're not even trying to see this empathically. Get yourself and your ego out of the situation and look at these situations through other people's eyes. If you can't do that, you might as well stop complaining because all you're doing is setting yourself into a perpetual cycle of frustration, and if you're not even going to try to understand the situation you're so irked over, nobody else wants to hear it.
Every goddamn person has some kind of weakness, Havoc. Even you.