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> If it was your code they were talking about, you may feel differently.

If you do anything out in public, you either develop a bit thicker skin or have a bad time. Frankly, if this bothers you at all that is indicative of a very fragile ego and not anyone's problem but yours. The rest of the world doesn't exist to coddle you and this cultural shift folks sometimes try to propose into that exact behaviour is unhealthy. We're adults, not children.



I think we can simultaneously bemoan the overall state of the public's ability to be kind, and still hold ourselves to a higher standard.




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