What Is Your Natural Reaction When Someone Is Rude To You For No Reason?
If you're at all like me, you show the same respect that someone shows you. So when someone out of the blue comments "Are you done or not motherfucking idiot?" followed by "I cant hear you motherfucking idiot, ARE YOU DONE OR NOT?," you have a few options.
- Return rudeness with rudeness
- Ignore it
- Heap (metaphorical) burning coals on their head
Option 1 is easy. Option 2 can get old. But option 3? Let's see what this burning coals may be about
Proverbs 25:21-22 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.
You do not need to be a Christian or even religious to see the value in these two short verses.
The Apostle Paul later went on to say
"Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good"in which he evidently explains what is meant by heaping coals of fire on an enemy’s head, namely, by acts of kindness, to soften his heart and dispose him to friendship; which is the natural effect of a generous unexpected goodness.
My decision is to act respectfully towards
. I do not know him or her and do not really wish to until they decide to act like an adult.
Children tend to get small allowances. Maybe had approached me in a respectful way he/she would have been able to speak his/her mind. But since I was treated childishly I will not react in the same way, but give a small gift to
. Maybe it gets squandered or used to fund a hateful account.
I am not advocating giving repeat trolls lots of money, but you never know where someone is at in their life. I'd guess most people with negative reputation have some real issues going on in their life so I will give $1.50 worth of steem dollars and allow them to respond as they wish.
I will not trade barbs or hatred. I'm not better than him or her, but I would put forth an argument about our maturity levels.
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Update:
has responded
Respectful and passionate. Glad to have heard his response