You know what? It's gonna sound like I'm going off on you, but I'm not. I'm going off on something you've said which I run into a lot, and which irritates me. It's just that you're the latest person to do it to me, and I want to explain why it bothers me.

I really really really hate it when I, or someone else, points out something truly fucked up and disturbing about the way the world works, and someone else comes along and says "Well, that's the way the world works."

We KNOW that this is how things are. We are saying quite explicitly that how things are is fucked up. We don't need to be told "Well, that's reality", because we are explicitly talking about an aspect of reality that needs to be changed.

I don't understand the failure of thinking that makes people do this. They're not always (or even usually) trolls or idiots, many of them are well-intentioned, but somehow they miss the fact that saying "this aspect of the real world is fucked up and wrong" is not a failure to recognize how the world really is. If anything, those of us who do this should be recognized as maybe, just possibly, trying to get other people's attention to a screwed up and wrong aspect of the world.