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Why Does Online Defamation Hurt?
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Basically, online defamation involves writing a post that involves someone's full name, and writing lies about that person using their full name.
I've also learned that it is considered a crime in some areas, and the victim can actually sue.
Out of curiosity, why was it made a crime? What makes it so serious that someone can legally sue for it?
I've known someone who was a victim of this, and he was so troubled by it that he apparently lost weight, lost sleep, and lost his appetite. He even had to go see a doctor. The lies made about him were stuff like being a child molester or a pedophile or something like that. It's weird because it didn't physically hurt him at all. Sometimes I feel as though he simply overreacted, but then I also feel that I'm just being ignorant.
Why is online defamation so emotionally damaging? Why couldn't he just ignore it?
I've also learned that it is considered a crime in some areas, and the victim can actually sue.
Out of curiosity, why was it made a crime? What makes it so serious that someone can legally sue for it?
I've known someone who was a victim of this, and he was so troubled by it that he apparently lost weight, lost sleep, and lost his appetite. He even had to go see a doctor. The lies made about him were stuff like being a child molester or a pedophile or something like that. It's weird because it didn't physically hurt him at all. Sometimes I feel as though he simply overreacted, but then I also feel that I'm just being ignorant.
Why is online defamation so emotionally damaging? Why couldn't he just ignore it?
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Abuse in that way can be very bit as damaging to a person's life as being attacked in the street can.
If the allegations were asnasty as you say it could affect everything in that person's life, from family to employment and more.
I agree that it's best to ignore small stuff like, your'e a fat so and so or you stink but accusations such as you outline are vile.
If the allegations were asnasty as you say it could affect everything in that person's life, from family to employment and more.
I agree that it's best to ignore small stuff like, your'e a fat so and so or you stink but accusations such as you outline are vile.
You say that you sometimes feels you are just being ignorant.
I think this is the heart of the matter.
You appear to lack insight into the emotions of others, and have no idea of the effect on people of emotional trauma.
Indeed, you appear not to recognise what causes emotional trauma.
I have no suggestion as to how you could begin to recognise, or empathose with, emotional trauma. People who lack empathy for others are notoriously difficult to change.
I think the best you can hope for is that you recognise that people are hurt, and even though you don't understand that hurt, you can avoid adding to it by trivialising or minimising it.
I think this is the heart of the matter.
You appear to lack insight into the emotions of others, and have no idea of the effect on people of emotional trauma.
Indeed, you appear not to recognise what causes emotional trauma.
I have no suggestion as to how you could begin to recognise, or empathose with, emotional trauma. People who lack empathy for others are notoriously difficult to change.
I think the best you can hope for is that you recognise that people are hurt, and even though you don't understand that hurt, you can avoid adding to it by trivialising or minimising it.
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