What is your opinion on the term "Furfag?"

[Rocoro T. Pup]

Seriously people who insult others clearly haven't found any peace in their own lives

[BakaFawkes]

I don't care what people say, I just don't let ir apply to me

[Count of Cutesy]

Honestly, I'd say any self respecting furry should be able to get on without taking a *word* so harshly to the point of calling it inhuman. There are worse crimes a person can commit to another.

It's better to take the "insult" (if it's even used in such a manner by whoever is saying it) with a grain of salt and just laugh at them, than to act like the mere mention or thought of the word is a poison to everything furry and must be abolished.  Seriously, I've heard furries use the word "human" in a worse meaning than "furfag" by most other people.

I'm a furfag, therefore I am.

In all seriousness, no one should ever be rewarded for being a jerk.

[Nrein]

I'd like to be pointed out where I say jerks should be rewarded?

You're obviously someone who is very strongly opinionated on everything wrong and bad and bullies and etc, but coming on here and QQ'ing about every little thing, taking peoples own opinions and essentially saying they're wrong for thinking them, and not keeping an open mind yourself, really has no basis for discussion.

[Rocoro T. Pup]

Yeah I didn't get that either... Nic didn't really commend that person.

[Count of Cutesy]

I'd like to be pointed out where I say jerks should be rewarded?

You're obviously someone who is very strongly opinionated on everything wrong and bad and bullies and etc, but coming on here and QQ'ing about every little thing, taking peoples own opinions and essentially saying they're wrong for thinking them, and not keeping an open mind yourself, really has no basis for discussion.

By laughing at them, you basically are rewarding them, because you did nothing to punish them for being jerks.

[Nrein]

If you're laughing at them it can also mean their attempt to annoy you/anger you failed, and you laugh at their failure?

If I laugh at someone for tripping and eating dirt, I'm not rewarding them for a trip well done :I

[Rocoro T. Pup]

Now listen here... I'm usually the first one to go all out offensive on somebody who taunts me or is being a jerk. But just laughing them off doesn't automatically grant them a win. Honestly the best kind of revenge you can get on somebody who envies you is to just laugh at them and show them you are living an awesome life.

What would you have done? Slap them silly? Nuh uh. Nic was right: you have no basis for discussion.

[Count of Cutesy]

Now listen here... I'm usually the first one to go all out offensive on somebody who taunts me or is being a jerk. But just laughing them off doesn't automatically grant them a win. Honestly the best kind of revenge you can get on somebody who envies you is to just laugh at them and show them you are living an awesome life.

What would you have done? Slap them silly? Nuh uh. Nic was right: you have no basis for discussion.

I would have done SOMETHING. Just laughing at them does nothing to show them the error of their ways. That's how society got so weak is that we were taught to ignore and laugh at our problems instead of standing up for ourselves and actually doing something about them.

Also, I actually do have a basis for discussion. I just hate it when people tell me to "ignore" or "laugh at" bullies and jerks instead of actually doing something about them. Because by laughing and ignoring them, they will NEVER stop. It's just a lie we're told to keep the bullied weak and the bullies strong.

[Rocoro T. Pup]

There's nothing wrong with laughing off people who take their insults and themselves waaaaay to seriously.

It's hard to cope with I'm sure, but that's why you probably get a lot of people laughing at you, you know?

[anoni]

Well laughing as well has a condescending aspect to it too. Cutesy, it could be very possible that laughing at a troll or a someone who calls you a furfag would be much more annoying to them then simply yelling at them and being angry. I mean, most of the time they're looking at an angry reaction, if you just laugh at them and go "wow, haha " and then leave it at that, it can be taken to be quite condescending and shows the person he's being ignored, which can indeed be quite insulting and punishing. I know if I was trying to get back and someone and all they did was laugh at me, I'd be pretty annoyed.

[Count of Cutesy]

I am NOT laughing at something that makes me angry. If I don't actually yell or scold them, then they get away with being jerks with nothing done about it. Of coarse seeing them banned from a site would be good too.

[Oedipus Rex]

I'm just going to throw my opinion out here.
 
I honestly agree with Cutesy, I would not laugh at another person's creulity. However, I would not scorn them directly, either. The fact is weather or not you laugh or yell at them you are giving them attention, and they feed off of attention. I prefer to not even look at the person, and scorn. Because being ignored is so much worse than being hated.

[Count of Cutesy]

I'm just going to throw my opinion out here.
 
I honestly agree with Cutesy, I would not laugh at another person's creulity. However, I would not scorn them directly, either. The fact is weather or not you laugh or yell at them you are giving them attention, and they feed off of attention. I prefer to not even look at the person, and scorn. Because being ignored is so much worse than being hated.

Ugh, then they get away with their BS! How is letting them get away with being a jerk going to teach them anything? Cause it's not about seeking a reaction, it's about being big and just outright unlikeable.

[Rocoro T. Pup]

Of coarse seeing them banned from a site would be good too.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that you just want people to feel bad, not really to have them taught lessons.