I hate to block people. But some are so bad that you have to. Do you agree or disagree?

I can't say "agree" because I don't agree with blocking at all; however, I totally see why someone would block and I agree with their decision to do it. Personally, however, I just ignore the answer if I run into yucky ramblings or whatever.

See, 99% of the time I grit my teeth and scroll down and away from hateful, ugly comments. But then sometimes my stomach is much stronger and I will sit and read something that I normally wouldn't. And that is because I believe you cannot sit back and paint yourself into your own little corner and ignore what's going on outside your boundaries. I need to know what's in the mindset of ignorant people. Sometimes they are truly terrible and yet sometimes they are frustrated, probably fed erroneous information, or even in cahoots with a buddy and pushing every button they possibly can to see knee-jerk reactions. Whatever.

But regardless of the subject matter, I want to know just how freaky the real freaks are and how ignorant the real ignoramuses are so that I can devise ways to deal with the situations. Some of those people can be reached. Not all, probably not the majority, but some, and we need to touch their lives and attempt to better them. Then, if we fail, and they go and end up on the front page of newspapers or something like that, we can go to sleep saying, "At least I tried. He was a lost cause from the beginning," and not, "Oh, lordy, I knew that guy, was he crying out for intervention and I turned him away?": and no matter what the answer to that last question may be, it will still haunt a good person. (I think I'm a good person. Sue me.) So I prefer to try.

Not my favorite pastime, mind you, but it works for me.