Yikes

[hils]

Greg and I were having an interesting dicussion yesterday about socialising. He was wondering if we have some sort of moral obligation to try and help people with poor social skills. My answer was that it can only work with people who want to be helped. But what got us talking in the first place was a thread he'd read on a forum about roleplaying. He sent me the link and it was quite alarming

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[hils.livejournal.com]

Yes, I would agree 100% with everything you say.

I possibly didn't word my post very well, I was trying to say that you can't force people to be better at talking to others, just help them in social situations if that's what they want

And I roleplay too (or I did) so this wasn't an anti-roleplaying post either

I think the guy mentioned in the above thread was a very extreme example. I know lots of gamers and 90% of them are very socially adept and capable of talking about other things.

I just found it an interesting (and quite scary) post