[Doc Intrepid]

Everyone interprets the "texts they experience" through the window of their own perspective.

You tell a "friend" that you took a smackdown, got two black eyes, and had to go in for surgery to repair your broken face, and they respond 'ahh suck it up and put on your big girl pants. The perp is a victim of society.'

I believe I'd harbor a bit of animosity against people who think that way as well.

If I were to write a blog piece, I would be writing it "to whom it may concern", not necessarily to one side of a debate or the other. On one hand any author attempts to be pursuasive. On the other, every author can only present their own truth - and not anyone elses...