On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 11:53 pm, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> It came off as standard schoolyard bullying.
You must have lived a privileged life if you think a little sarcasm is what
school bullies do.
If we're going to exchange pop psychology tales, I don't know what it's like
for young girls, but in my experience when it comes to boys sarcasm is far
more likely to be used by the *victims* of bullying as a (pathetically
ineffective) defence mechanism.
Of course, things may be different on the Internet. Bullies cannot, as a
rule, punch you in the face and stomp on your lunch like they can in the
schoolyard, so perhaps they have learned to co-opt the tactics of their
erstwhile victims.
> If your child often tries to explain away misdeeds with 'We were just
> having fun ...', [...] you may just have a bully in the making living
> under your roof.
They might even be a psychopath. They could even grow up to be a serial
killer! Why, they might even be the next Hitler!!! Better drown them in the
bathtub now, before they kill 6 million people and start a world war!!!1!
Or... maybe they actually were just having fun, just like they said, and the
parents are over-protective, over-suspicious, over-reacting killjoys who
misinterpret the rough and tumble of play as abuse.
>> Even if I used ... sarcasm.
>
> The dictionary defines Sarcasm as: "The use of irony to mock or
> convey contempt"
Well duh. I was mocking and conveying my contempt of Bart's error handling
code ("sys.exit()"). Wasn't that obvious? Perhaps I could add some markup
next time:
<sarcasm meaning="I do not actually love this code I think it sucks">
"Brilliant! I love code like this!"
</sarcasm>
Or do you think it would sting less if I were merely brutally honest?
"Your code is bad and you should feel bad for having written it."
Or perhaps "If you were a student of mine, I would fail you for that code."
Or perhaps you think I should have given him an A+ and an elephant stamp for
effort? "We're all winners here, yay!"
I think Bart made the right response under the circumstances: he pointed out
that his code was obviously quick and dirty code for testing purposes and
not intended as production code, and he mocked me for not having noticed
this fact, as he was completely right to do. But I was mislead by his
earlier comments, and thought that it was production code (even if his
user-base consisted of just one person, himself).
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