>>15126333Trips suggest people are mean. Maybe they don't mean to be? Usually when you meet someone here, you've come with damage and so have they. Sometimes things are said carelessly because they've become an ingrained part of a morose outlook, or said to be edgy to negate the possibility ot true connection and by extension true risk of being hurt, and sometimes even with outright cruelty, as an outlet for whatever horror is afflicting them at the moment. Most people don't mean to be mean. Nice thing about this place in particular, you have a lot of freedom to talk about what you want. You have some limited individual recognition if you choose. People keep coming back here because it has its moments. What are you looking for? What would it take to get you to start feeling people perhaps aren't intrinsically mean?