I wasn't saying you aren't free to criticize others. I'm saying there are ways to do it constructively, and there are ways to do it that are not (which devolve into personal attacks, which are almost always pointless and unnecessary and ego-serving). You have already established you are in the latter camp and defend your position by acting powerless and victimy -- and feeling the need to defend yourself from being criticized by me, by criticizing my own
past behavior in response to my pointing out the negative aspects of your
current behavior. In your mind, this "equalizes" the affront (probably a subconscious one) to your ego and puts you "back in the game" again. If we "discuss" this way, it turns from the actual issue at hand into just bickering back and forth.
Can't you see this?
If you can't see that it's much more positive to think of solutions to currently existing problems, rather than focusing on the negative aspects (which you recently denounced in the sexbox, ironically), then I don't know what to tell you. You've turned this from a potentially constructive
actual discussion, into something more like this:
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