Chain Toxicity

I don't have a solution for it obviously. I browse the boards from time to time and see some people claim "FIX TOXICITY WITH ONE SIMPLE TRICK" but realistically there is an astronomical amount of variables that go into toxicity. one that affects me, in particular, is chain toxicity. While I'm not the instigator I will reply according to how I felt prior to starting the client if its an average day things go well I mute them and go about my day. there are times, however, where I will have had a bad day, for example, I was laid off from work recently and have had trouble finding work. I believe I've lashed out a couple of times since I was laid off. Anyway, the point of this story isn't "I'm innocent unban me!" I've yet to have so much as a mute on my account but I want to open a point people are toxic for a reason and while you should still report them. It is my belief that you should take a step back when someone is raging towards you and consider this person as if they were a close friend and draw some parallels, For example: You are the jungler in the game you get a couple good ganks in top but decided to start camping bottom lane to get the lane snowballing but top lane, as a result, is now being camped and begins struggling and blames you claiming you've done nothing all game and you should uninstall despite this clearly being untrue. A parallel to this would be a grieving friend claiming no one is there for them and they don't need you because you were unable to go to their mothers funeral since you had your sister's graduation at the same time or some other crucial event. The difference here would be your friend would have some time to reflect and would likely apologize since you had helped them before either moving or helping them with a bully problem in grade school. while the top laner only has about 30 minutes to process what had conspired in the match before they forget about you 5 minutes after the end of the match and they chalk it up to a betrayal. this can happen two or three times to the same person causing their attitude to be increasingly toxic after enough time it's possible that this process just becomes a mindset that everyone but their self is a useless sack of garbage. so what we've done so far is humanize the initial toxic player which makes it easier to ignore and prevent yourself from escalating the situation.

This is all just a bunch of philosophy and the entire purpose of this post is to provoke thought.

TL;DR Try humanizing toxic players in your game to prevent yourself from escalating the situation yourself.