Most sensitive=most callous

[ChocolateMoose123]

A Stone Heart and an Achilles Heel are using different muscles. It just looks like sentiment is coming from the same place. It's not.

 

[alcea rosea]

OP: Not true.

 

[Thalassa]

Did I mention that I'll cut you?

 

[Glycerine]

Like the lovely Lorena Bobbitt?

 

[tinker683]

Reminds me of that saying, "The kindest hearts produce the greatest cruelty".

Not sure where that saying came from though

*edit*

I remember now where I first read it, it was in the book, "Wizard's First Rule" but Terry Goodkind. Good book, though I sorely doubt he came up with it.

 

[copperfish17]

OP: IME, I find it to be true.

 

[the soulless one]

It depends on how you mean sensitive. Some people are very sensitive to others and are not callous, but others are indeed very sensitive and are often overly sensitive and they tend to be the most callous and crass people I come across as they take a slight or perceived attack or whatever, times what it really is ten-fold, and feel justified in behaving cruelly and callously to the 'offender' in a way far, far more severe and hurtful than what was ever actually done to them.

I would say I can be overly-sensitive, though I don't really fall into the callous behavior unless, ironically, one of those overly-sensitive people perceive me as malicious or try to hurt me when they thought I hurt them. I usually overlook it but eventually when this happens so much from one person where I figure out that they are sensitive but are reactionary, I play the hypocrite and deliberately hurt them back until they learn to get lost and leave me alone. But I have been hurt the most by these people. I hate them when I run across them, especially when I thought they were so nice, too. = /

 

[Invisiblemonkey]

It looks like this topic refers to people who are so sensitive, that the worse things in life wear on them the more easily, therefore making them callous more quickly than anyone else. In hypothesis, some if not a good deal of logical people simply adapt logic as a personal policy because we can't handle our own feelings, not unlike Vulcans. Conversely, those of us who do that don't appear to have Pon Farr.

 

[mrcockburn]

Perhaps it is the sensitive people who know how to make the most cutting remarks and actions. They know what hurts, and they're called callous. I've been called callous before, but I'm not like that at all - I just have quite eccentric and extreme political views.

 

[Glycerine]

It looks like this topic refers to people who are so sensitive, that the worse things in life wear on them the more easily, therefore making them callous more quickly than anyone else. In hypothesis, some if not a good deal of logical people simply adapt logic as a personal policy because we can't handle our own feelings, not unlike Vulcans. Conversely, those of us who do that don't appear to have Pon Farr.

These were exactly my original thoughts but it's quite interesting to see what others think.

On a side note, I was noticing how there were a lot of F's on here and irl who seemed really forceful with their T side that it came off completely unnatural like they had something to prove and/or hide.

 

[Little_Sticks]

It looks like this topic refers to people who are so sensitive, that the worse things in life wear on them the more easily, therefore making them callous more quickly than anyone else. In hypothesis, some if not a good deal of logical people simply adapt logic as a personal policy because we can't handle our own feelings, not unlike Vulcans. Conversely, those of us who do that don't appear to have Pon Farr.

Theoretically, one might say you don't appear to have Pon Farr in this case because you have changed so that you are constantly in Pon Farr. I'm sure you know what I mean, even if it seems like an absurd suggestion.

 

[bcvcdc]

It depends on how you mean sensitive. Some people are very sensitive to others and are not callous, but others are indeed very sensitive and are often overly sensitive and they tend to be the most callous and crass people I come across as they take a slight or perceived attack or whatever, times what it really is ten-fold, and feel justified in behaving cruelly and callously to the 'offender' in a way far, far more severe and hurtful than what was ever actually done to them.

ok, what's the most cruel behavior:

taking very personal information about a certain person, maybe information which could deeply hurt someone if it got loose, and broadcasting it to the entire world so what ends up happening is that EVERYBODY and his little brother knows EVERYTHING (and i mean every little fucking detail) about this person. Meanwhile, she doesn't know (and i mean she really doesn't know) any of this is going on and often wonders why the fuck almost everybody is leering at her when she turns around.

or

screaming a few choice words into the distant sky.

huh?

YOU TELL ME!