What is your attitude to sarcastic people in mylot and in real life?

I appreciate your attitude. But it needs courage to ignore them. Some are weak at heart, and a sarcastic comment is enough to dishearten them. That happens to many youngsters. They start something with confidence and hope and one such comment pulls them down. Some even feel they are good for nothing. And we have no way to avoid these sarcastic people in life.

We find them everywhere. In every field of life. They don't allow the weaker to go ahead. Sarcasm is meant to hurt. They find a pleasure in that. We need courage to keep away from them. If someone does the same to them they may understand.

Everyone needs to follow you. But there are the weaker, young, who are not yet sure about themselves, insecure, seeking some advice and recognition in life. Instead of helping them to come up, these sarcastic remarks make them go back to their shell.

As you say a person who is dumb or stupid, can he understand sarcasm? If you give a sarcastic reply to his stupidity will that help him in any way? They will give back a more stupid look. By the way I don't know the exact meaning of stupidity. There are people who are less understanding, not very wise. They too deserve to live in this world. If people were kind and understanding to them they may learn things. If you talk to them the way you said, they won't understand the sarcasm, so the purpose of it failed. Noone wants to behave stupid, so if they really are less understanding, how can anyone say they deserve it?

Tingtong, what you must remember is that even the smartest among us can say & do stupid things on occasion. If, in the example given by BrittneeD happens, it should only be friend to friend, because the friend being addressed in such a manner knows his friend knows he's not really stupid. In such a case, one does well to shrug off the "insult" because it's only a tease between friends. Only a "thin-skinned," insecure person would think he'd really been insulted, then.

Maggiepie
IMPEACH THE IMPOSTER!

Those people do it purposely and expect us to react. It is better to keep away from them. But it takes time to get that courage. I used to get hurt a lot when I was young, and wonder why they did it. Then I realized it was their problem, and I was not inferior to anyone. Now I ignore their comments.

Even if we try, we are not able to help them out of it. They need someone like themselves who can hurt back. That may teach them a lesson. But usually people keep away from them. But there are some who join them and encourage. They don't realize they can't be good friends to anybody. Have a nice day!

hope that wasn't me. i only insult friends and they know it isn't actually meant to be insulting...

No jb. I haven't ignored you have I? This was a downright rude person with the same insulting put down on many responses. Time will tell. I don't think she'll last long.

i'm not sure who you mean but no doubt will discover in due course. sounds like a pain in the neck anyway.

I doubt you will meet up with her. She only appears to be in one interest group which I don't think you visit.

A typical response is: "Idiot! Get an education"

how old is she - 10? that is pathetic.

You roused my curiosity so I checked the profile.
She is 60 years old and it would appear she only posts under one interest.

They are more happy when we ignore them as they can do it more on us. If someone joins them they get more brave. But they don't understand we are not fools. We avoid them out of our decency and not of fear. But some weak minds are victims of these sarcastic people.

Hmm, I beg to disagree, I think they are more happy when we 'fight back' or when they see that we are hurt when we ignore them. If we just ignore them as if they do not exist then their comments backfire. But if we ignore them and our expressions look hurt and are affected with what they were saying, that gives them the confidence to hurt us more. I do agree that when they think their "power" isnt working on us, then someone joins them, it does give them that extra boost to just hurt us more.

And yeah, I do agree that we are being the better person by not stooping down to their level of sarcasm. We have the decency to act like people.
I dont challenge a sarcastic person if I know Im going to be the one who will end up hurt. I make sure that Im in the right mood to not care about their comments, and be more bitingly sarcastic than them. Yeah, that doesnt make me the better person but sometimes we have to go down to their level just to teach them a lesson.

One thing I learned about sarcastic people, they love to dish out the insulting comments to other people, but they hate it when other people address insulting comments at them.

They understand sarcasm or insults very quickly, as they are the experts in doing that to others. Anyway we have to adapt our own way of dealing them. They are not a rare species. You find them everywhere. We shall not let them win.

I couldn't agree more.

Yes. They are everywhere. Better keep away from them. If we get hurt, take them seriously, they win in their attempt which encourages them. If we keep away, they feel we are ignorant and have more fun on them. They get some pleasure out of their ways.

The world is made of all sorts of people. Somehow I cannot tolerate those people who are sarcastic. They cannot admit anyone else is better than themselves. Courtesy, humility etc people have to learn. Some learn when they get back the sarcasm.

Sometimes tit for tat needs to be applied to make others realise their mistakes.

Hi ting!
Many thanks for the best response. It makes me delighted.

We cannot expect the whole world to be good and nice but I feel pity for all those who purposely hurt others. Here people from all over the world try to make friends some may not know good English as it's a foreign language to many of us. Instead of keeping a friendly atmosphere some try to show their superiority by teasing others. Humour we all love to share, but sarcasm we can't stand.