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]

I agree. The specific example we were using was a guy that used to work with us. He was very introverted but to the point where he was defensive and nasty to everyone. I tried to be nice but got nowhere so eventually I gave up.

[gyri.livejournal.com]

I don't blame you for giving up. Extend the hand of kindness, yes, but don't expose yourself to verbal abuse.

I don't think anyone should ever "help" someone else at the expense of their own self-preservation or self-esteem (I'm not referring to heroic acts to save someone's life, here---that's another category)..

What that woman who wrote the post exposed herself through was mental, verbal, and emotional abuse. It's good she finally got away from that sick individual.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she's definitely well rid of him