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[–] tacitus 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Getting into flame wars online is just petty. Even in real life, if someone chooses to be a dick to you (and it is an active choice), then just deal with it, unless it's reputation damaging or potentially violent. Look up stoic philosophy. One of the cornerstones of it is maintaining an almost emotionless state, however the whole point of it isn't that you force yourself to grin and bear it, but more that you let things go, accepts things/actions/people for what they are, and you yourself become stateless (don't carry negative emotions/memories around with you like baggage). Think of the old christian maxim: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."