Cruelty and not treating others as equals.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Guys who use the word “snot.”
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2012 source ↗
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Does it make a difference? You’re dead.
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