Comment Re:Or will it? (Score 1) 132
Heh I don't know about that, you did a really fine job yourself. My main contribution was the recognition that much of it comes from the personal insecurities of the perpetrators. Your own recognition of the tendency itself was certainly accurate and I found your illustration of it witty and amusing.
Few people are philosophers (in the sense that Thoreau used the term [see his comment on the news]), so they don't perform regular introspection and they aren't constantly seeking to understand and overcome their weaknesses and character flaws. That causes all sorts of insanity, like making the same mistake over and over again while clinging to a victim mentality that blames anyone or everyone else.
Otherwise, people would make these false inferences a time or two, receive a rebuff, and say "hmm maybe I should be more careful about making assumptions and putting words in the virtual mouths of others". By asking them to cease, you're actually asking them to sort out all of the personal baggage they would have already faced if they had the courage. Most people/sheeple/whatever you want to call them would rather repeat their insanity.