Online haters

kill yourself faggot

My opinion is that this is a pointless thread and &Humanities was a mistake

And I'm negative IRL even after being negative online so it's not cathartic for me

>>2715490
>Humanities was a mistake
What? We can't just have one board for Hitler-worship threads! You're worse that Hitler!

get cancer

>>2715459

The theory of catharsis as been largely dropped by modern psychologists, whop instead opine that giving vent to hateful emotions actually strengthens them.

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I disagree with this mainly because I do not think that there is such a thing as 'raw' and unaggregated emotion.

First, I think emotions go through some sort of cognitive process, if even for a millisecond, that informs a person to what they think they should feel.
Kind of like, "This person spilled coffee on me, I am mad".
So, the accumulation of negative emotion is more interpreting events in a negative manner, and continuing to do so when we reflect on the event.

This said, venting in any case- even if non-harmful thanks to anonymity and a virtual culture which is conducive to such outbursts may lead a person
to accepting the detrimental notion that if they can deal with it in the end, it will not harm them.

More or less, I don't think it will solve the problems of a sufferer facing emotional tension, so I do not think it is the best course of action.