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I was responding to the hypothesis that many of these 'overreactions' are essentially the result of PTSD symptoms... not the specific case at hand since I wasn't even aware of it.

That a mere comment about a personal experience with this dynamic manages to garner a bunch of downvotes is all the more indication that awareness about such dynamics is sorely lacking in large parts of the IT community... which of course only reinforces those exact same dynamics.

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My statement said, and maybe it wasn't clear enough, was that in cases (such as the OPs) where people found offence _and_ the vast majority of others didn't that _maybe_ the majority cause is stress related. So in other words what I am saying is that maybe in these types of really unusual cases there might be this particular unusual cause.

In that case I think your root cause analysis is probably quite accurate but that you're drastically underestimating how common of a driver for this kind of behavior it is.

> not the specific case at hand since I wasn't even aware of it.

It could be the downvotes are because you're off topic, not because of any other links. It's quite hard to assign reasons to downvotes without commentors explaining their vote reasons.

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