In a burst of incendiary paradox, I assume the grenade lobbed in the OP was to solicit affirmation and agreement.

I see a trans-oceanic logic leap here. Though forum=discussion, I miss how discussion is defined as invalidating and undermining someone we don't know in a situation we've never witnessed.

Advice giving is a dangerous enterprise, and when disrespectful, about the advice-giver's elevation as opposed to the recipient. Does anyone want to be psychoanalyzed and prescribed by the untrained world?

I think the same social mores apply in a forum that apply to how we interact in person. If it would be unwelcome to diagnose, analyze and undermine our real life social circle, why is it all right on a forum? I wince when I read those types of comments here. I wonder if that interactive style was therapy-influenced.