There are way too many trolls on the internet. People who are either super sure of themselves, or who get off somehow by acting that way, appear to go out of their way to shock and provoke insult.
trolling e-waste downstream markets |
And then there are really principled people, who really think they are good and fair, who really mean to do well, but they are caught in a tide of group-think.
Some of us cannot even see how our perceptions of reality have been caught in a kind of cultural gravity that general impressions cannot escape. Many of these people are even agents of conscience, trying to make the earth a better place, as best as they know how.
It was someone like the latter to whom I sent the email (bottom, in yellow) for someone's first R2 (Responsible Recycler) end market report two years ago. I have changed names, hotlinks, and email addresses, otherwise this is exactly what we sent. This is a real case of "collateral damage"... no one meant to do anything but good...
Someone I wrote about in September 2012 is now out of business.