Toxicity

two rules:

1. if you act shitty, you end up being shitty
2. if you let shittiness into your space, your space ends up being shitty

people impart opinions more than they do knowledge.

people impart opinions disguised as knowledge, sometimes unknowingly.

opinions from people to which you are not connected¹ are a huge waste of time.

opinions are not a substitute for knowledge, and no amount of exceptional knowledge validates an opinion.

if someone acts shitty when asserting their opinion, then validating their opinion validates their shittiness. (rule 2)

boundaries are necessary.

asserting boundaries doesn’t make you a shitty person.

defending boundaries doesn’t make you a shitty person.

if you act shitty as a way to assert or defend boundaries, that makes you a shitty person. (rule 1)

not accepting other people’s boundaries makes you a shitty person.

you can dislike things without being shitty.

you can despise things without being shitty.

you can be angry without being shitty.

if you express these things in a shitty way, that makes you a shitty person. (rule 1)