“Are Zingers Really Winning? Unpacking the Hidden Cost of Witty Comebacks”
The problem now is there’s no limit. We can keep escalating it until everyone’s furious. God doesn’t usually step in to lower the temperature. Everyone keeps slinging mud until they’re all covered with it, and they’ve forgotten what the argument was about in the first place.
Zingers raise the temperature without limit. Zingers kill rational discussion. Zingers make real life worse, not better.
One major problem with social media is that it promotes zingers. The social media algorithms reward and amplify outrage.
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