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Or in this case, defensive readers.
Defensive listeners take others' remarks as personal attacks. For example, the teenager who perceives their parents' questions about their friends and activities as distrustful uses defensive listening, as do touchy parents, who view any questioning by their children as a threat to their authority and parental wisdom. It's (slightly) fair to assume that defensive listeners suffer from shaky presenting images and avoid admitting it by projecting their own insecurities onto others.
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Edited by VerticalGradient: 4/29/2013 1:16:54 AMI most definitely agree. And I'd say that it also applies to most other places of the internet. Although, to some credit, a lot of people are bashful speakers/writers. So it's not completely surprising that this is the case, but still, too many people don't seem to grasp the concept of walking away from a pointless encounter. Or, on the other side, of not being aggressive.