Tip #28 Don't Overestimate Your Influence/Virtue

From the comment section of a recent slactivist blogpost; "I seem to be getting under Fred's skin..." Same commenter in a thread of responses to the same comment; "Rather than risk making you radioactive by thanking you for your kind words..." Both Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort have blamed the poor Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB reviews of their recent movies on a concerted effort against them.

I struggled with naming this tip. I don't want to say that anybody is unimportant. Yet, there's this tendency, particularly among evangelists and apologists, to interpret every action of other persons as being, ultimately, about said evangelists and apologists.
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