>>Please, do yourself a favor - as many people have told you - quit worrying about what others think of you.
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>What really amazes me here on the UT is the tremendous amount of people who tell others to quit worrying about what others think of you. Is this a part of the Wonderful American Culture? Or is it typical for, so-called rational, programmers? Is that the lesson Dr. Phil and Oprah Winfrey have taught you all?
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>I criticize that attitude. It shows a serious lack of empathy and solidarity.


And yours just enables infantile behavior. Is this something Dutch? Don't you teach people to assume responsibility for their own actions or do all dutchment pander to the miscreant?