Does SL make one more tolerant in First Life?

I don't think SL has done anything to make me more tolerant of others, but then I've never seen that as a problem of mine. Quite the contrary, it's others tolerating me that I'm always worried about.

It's really the reverse - SL is a place I feel like I'm tolerated and occasionally even liked for being myself. It's kind of uncomfortable though. SL isn't really complete enough as a mindspace to allow me to fully expand and express what's in my heart. RL intolerance is like a pressure building up, and then something like SL comes along that offers a little hole to escape through, but you can't quite get all the way through and just end up developing a mental hernia instead.

I don't think its any different for me, I think everyone is entitled to living life however they see fit and in alot of ways I am probably too tolerant if thats possible. I accept people without regard to their color race etc.. I only go by how I am treated by them and how they act toward others.

SL hasnt helped a bit. I'll still set off a nuke IRL if the need calls for it. TOS or not.

It has helped me a bit. I despise pecan pie in RL..but in SL I just hate it in a sort of mild, apathetic way.

Pecan pie was good (back when I ate pies instead of threw them). You are wrong. End of sentence. Period. Fin. ...Unless--

I think the simple fact that residents are exposed to such a broad gamut of people is helps breed some level of tolerance.

Like fuck it does. You bunch of assmunching morons.













Were you offended by that? Good. Now grow a sense of humor you thin skinned fuck.

I gotta say with the morons I meet in SL, its makes me want to punch things in RL, lack of sleep makes me tetchy, and my constant 'trying to change skins' obsession is really wearing thin at the clinic..

Although I do understand things alot better now... SL is the same as RL, your either in with the in crowd, or your not...

<insert conspiracy theory of your choice here>



I guess I am more tolerant of ppl in RL, as I realise that all over there world there are people WAY WAY worse, and I have met some terrific friends whom I adore <3

lol. you're onto something there, wills. that's true of me too... given the sheer amount of complete and utter assholes in second life makes you appreciate that the little annoyances and quirks of your rl friends arent nearly as bad as some people out there.

So yes, a world full of assholes does make you more tolerant of less asshole-like people irl.

SL has made me more tolerant of gun frea.. gun lovers ; because I'm one in SL (they just look too cool, and are harmless here). It made me more tolerant of nightclubers and what I call "lolzers" too. 'made me more tolerant of trisexual hermaphrodite peoples too (but then, they are scarse IRL)

SL has focused my vision sooo acutely that IRL I've discovered Starbucks where Starbucks previously had feared to tread.

I owe it all to Pituca!

My Starbucks Madness

But it is an impossible task. It's like the immortal alien in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trying to insult every single being in the galaxy... alphabetically. By the time you visited one Starbucks, another two have been built. One step forward, two steps back. Unless of course you are dead, then this is some weird form of punishment in a Greek Hades-like hell that you must suffer from now to eternity.

Just the opposite for me. I meet so many dickheads and morons in real life, and see the tragic consequences of failed humanity each day, that SL is refreshing in it's general tolerance, intelligence and helpfulness.

Ironically I think SL has made me less tolerent. I've always been pretty open minded in terms of people's lifestyles, politic, etc. Where I find myself less tolerant is my willingness to deal with people who have crappy manners, and endless beat the same dead horse.

You quit talking about me meanie!!!

lmao David....

Seriously,

I have met some excellent folks in SL... but I have also met some people who I seriously wonder about their psychological health.