What does however, is that certain players have a role they are taking on right now optically, to protect the majority from an even worse stage of circumstances. It could be SO much worse right now than it is, with endless lockdowns, and MANDATORY vaccinations. Trump actually prevented that. We have until the FDA emergency authorization ends, and they could switch that on real quick…
See what’s going on right now in Greece, and France etc?
What’s the ONE issue that will get MOST every American engaged, and out in the streets of EVERY city in the country?
MANDATORY VACCINES.
I disagree about hurt feelings being a choice. If one is a human being you could experience hurt feelings. Just because one doesn’t show it or acknowledge it out of some sense of bravado. They are there.
One can choose how one responds to the comment. One can see that the other person is saying a thing intended to hurt because of that person's own issues or lack of understanding. One can consider that perhaps the other person didn't mean it the way it sounded. One can ignore the hurtful comment as being not worthy of attention. One can understand that if a comment feels hurtful, that's usually a signal it's tripped one's own emotional trigger, and that is best dealt with by examining what in one's makeup or past experiences would cause that to happen, especially as unraveling it means the end of that emotional trigger.