When you’ve grown up believing that words are violence and simply disagreeing is a personal attack, it’s hard for you to comprehend that people can think differently and not be terrible people.

They’ve been rewarded by their teachers and schools all their lives for this very behavior. That reward has simply been to silence those they disagree with, but that’s enough for them. They’re happy with that. In return, that behavior is just reinforced. Psychologically, they simply expect people to be forced to comply because they don’t like something.

Then, when people clearly don’t give a damn about their feelings, they react like this, complete with physical symptoms.

Why?

Because they know they can’t win in the war of ideas.