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But this app isn't a bully picking on you every day. It's every potential bully standing behind a curtain yelling non-stop insults against every person in the school.

Surely it takes most of the sting out of the insult when everyone is getting continuously insulted anonymously.

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The parent comment bears repeating: "Clearly you've never been bullied before." You can't logic away emotional pain.

Can't you? Or to put it another way: in the face of Reason, can the emotion even remain?

If you rationalise and understand the triviality of the situation and the ultimate stream of nonsense that the App apparently is, would this affect you?

It seems one would be emotionally affected upon _failure_ to make this rationalisation.

I'm going to extend my earlier comment to "clearly you've never been clinically depressed." The attitude that "you've got nothing to be sad about, rationally speaking, so logic your emotions away and cheer up!" is a factor in an awful lot of suicides.

>against every person in the school

You assume everyone uses this site/app/whatever. Its obvious (for me, maybe Im wrong) that its something for adolescent girls and maybe bullies, normal kids wont find anything interesting there.

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