I wish there was an anger-based thread.
I'm doing a group project, one person has posted their 1/4 of the essay. It's 300 words and filled with parenthesis saying [please add here] or [please expand] or somesuch. I've done my piece, the biggest one at around 1300 words. Not a huuuuge amount, but still a lot given it's only a 3000 word essay and there are four of us. So now I'm writing out her part too, burning it like it could breed, so I can start again. The problems she had with finding the price of things I fixed by simple google searches, and a single phone call to a museum. Literally, she just could not be bothered. If I weren't marked on her contribution as well, I'd leave her to her own floundering.
Most of the work in this "group" project has been done by me. It was my idea for the original project, it's my suggestions that have shaped everybody else's work, and now it turns out that my already bigger piece will be made bigger by other people not pulling their weight.
If I were in your position, I'd just destroy all of my work and screw over the entire group, because they don't deserve to get anything from work they didn't do.
Don't destroy your work.
What this guy said :X
Do NOT destroy your work by sinking your own ship just to get at the crewmates who aren't pulling their own weight.
What you CAN do is first talk to EACH ONE PERSONALLY and give your concerns in an OBJECTIVE manner. Emphasize or appeal to personal development if it's a possible last resort (because it won't help them in the long-run if they aren't firstly, self-committed; if they are, maybe they just need a nudge or reminder, or a bigger overview [which is what you're doing here, but by yourself])
If such cannot be effectively performed, approach your instructor during their free/consultation time and broach this topic with them in private.
I have the slight impression i'm slowly turning into an asshole. [...]
You mean your perception
Or your attitude. But nobody is pretty much figuratively that; it's their attitude and how they deal with it, their thoughts and how they work with it. Just because you receive a specific type of thought firsthand doesn't mean this is PRIMARILY AND NECESSARILY WHAT YOU REALLY ARE ONLY THINKING. Especially in the context of negativity, because this is a current happening on the continuum of lived experiences. Meaning, it is a state of mind :O
Life now just seems to becoming more mundane, dull, negative and unrewarding. I thought multiple times on giving up, but i know it's not the answer.
This is an indicator of awareness. Further it up with forging your own opportunities and working with broadening perspectives, to alleviate or avoid getting into living with monotony. A negative thought is only as powerful as how much space it takes up, and the recesses of the mind are abstractly and constructively infinite.
People seem to be offended too easily nowadays. If you're not trying to offend people but they get offended anyway, I'd say it's their problem for being offended, not your problem for offending them.
This is my justification for saying offensive things
That's offensive. jk
nah it's pretty childish
What Putnam said.
If you think the other person is going to be offended easily, why blame them and defend yourself by saying it's not my problem? That goes parallel to the same level of development 'easily offended' is. Why do that when you can work together in facing what makes this offensive and grow together in maturing either's perspective?
It confuses me, that one line. 'Not my problem. Not your problem. Their problem.' or many instances of how you word it. It's like there's lacking notice of why these things happen, and more notice on 'this just happens'.