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Guard Your Response

I donā€™t think there are any social media platforms or services that donā€™t have some type of format where people can offer comments, ratings, or feedback. In particular, I seem to marvel mostly at the platforms that give the public opportunities to add comments to news stories, pictures, or a response to a ā€œpostā€ someone writes. No matter what the topic or subject matter I choose, it never fails that many of the responses can get quite vulgar, insensitive, obscene and downright heartless. Those very responses, themselves, generate their own responses from people who are angered, offended, or ā€œtriggeredā€ by what has been written. What it generates is a near endless cycle of bantering back and forth as to who can ā€œout-degradeā€ each other with the most well crafted slander. The comments that disappoint me the most are those who invoke their Christian faith or refer to some form of a Biblical passage. Although their intentions to help (and correct) are commendable, I must say i...