For my sanity, long ago, I've had to adopt an absurdist point of
   view towards everything. I feel the injustice and I still don't
   like being wrong - yet when I'm in a debate, I remind myself
   that while words have power, they don't have to have power over
   my emotional state. I started practicing in the 3rd grade and I
   got very good at being able to deflect words, as I have a strong
   mental thesaurus and can make bad things good in my mind very
   quickly and the other person "just having a bad day". I do it
   for my own protection against emotional manipulation. But not
   just against me. I can never turn my "empathy" circuits off. In
   a room, I feel what people feel. Positive, negative, every
   emotion that's coming out of them, it hits me all at once.
   Thankfully, on the Internet I have control and can do things
   that are difficult in real life: take several points of view,
   diffuse emotional situations... because it's the realm of
   writing, a place where I do well. I'm still sitting here in my
   comfortable chair and can see the pixels on the screen when I
   need to. But even here, I feel connected to everybody I talk to.
   Their emotional states start to become my own. So it's a
   constant struggle between the two: maintaining an absurdist
   point of view towards everything keeps me from feeling hurt as
   much as I normally would. Yet it doesn't stop the empathy
   circuits from receiving everything.