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Originally Posted by carrie721
i find this rhetoric difficult to swallow.
i don't know you or your story. i want to make it clear that i'm not defending ethan, i'm just interested in addressing a broader issue you brought up.
in this situation you could justify being unsympathetic for a number of reasons. you could say ethan's irritating, or that he posts the same thing over and over again, or that he's fishing for attention. any of those would be defensible. but to turn it into a pissing contest about whose life is more difficult is silly and it makes you look petulant. that's the irony of indulging in this kind of oneupsmanship.
i have no reason to doubt that you've been through hell, but your experience is not the official standard unit of suffering, and to say that the only people who get your sympathy are those who have had it just as bad or worse than you've had it is just goofy.
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I didn't mean to one up. I want no sympathy. I'd rather be hated than pitied.
there are always people who have it worse, but in my case...Ethan is not one of them.
I give sympathy to those who deserve it and don't go fishing for it on message boards.