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Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

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Joel Stein
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
Journalist
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Edison Township
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I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.
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You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions.
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I don't like to be in the forest. It's a weird thing. I've learned to have a general appreciation for nature, which has taken a while. But the forest, I still don't really love.
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The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.
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I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.
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It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.
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People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.
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I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.
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You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.
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I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.
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Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, I am gonna write! And then I wind up.
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I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.
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I don't read the letters section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.
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I've learned over time that every editor has told me when you're getting that much hate, you don't talk about it. You just kind of don't give it oxygen and let it go away. It's almost - not always, but almost - always the best policy.
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I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.
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I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.
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Reporting in general makes me pretty nervous. But I realized: all the amazing work experiences of my life were thanks to reporting. So that forces you to go do it.
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Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.
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I don't read letters sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.
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The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.
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