Is my solution ethical considering the circumstances?
Sitting here doing nothing reading through forum posts because I have nothing to do.
Don't feel like playing a game right now because I just don't. I have a history of responding to toxicity with toxicity and fear of being permabanned again makes me just stop playing when someone flames me. No, I wasn't the only person flamed, but it was clear the other didn't respond well to it either.
I know that many people's shitty way of dealing with the displeasing notion of losing 1 game leads to the utter disrespect flung like poo at people's faces by a monkey in a zoo.
Disabling /all is not enough. Actually it does nothing to combat the problem. From now on, I'm taking this lesson to heart, posting a sticky on my monitor "Silence is Gold. Teamwork is Above all". This will remind me to leave my ego out of the game so that it cannot be touched, and remind me to just /muteall on game start and resume attempting to improve my game (albeit without any form of communication beyond pings). What I really want is the inability to type. I want that option available and will probably post another thread again requesting it.
The less I remove my eyes from the minimap to focus on the whats going on in the chat box, the more I will stay focused on keeping my eyes on the minimap. Simple, right? I can communicate through pings, and chances are, if someone doesn't respond to pings, they either intentionally are ignoring them or they don't look at the minimap.
The less I know about the people I play with, the less I will tilt. It's worked before. It will work from now on. If muting everyone will help me to make better decisions in games, that is what I will do.
They say in the tips: "Don't let another player's frustration influence your actions" and this is exactly my problem. So rather than thinking about what to say, or whether or not I will be getting reported if I say this or that, I choose to accept that at some point, I'm going to get flamed for being counter jungled or consistently ganked. I choose to accept that the weight of being flamed has more value than being complimented. Rather than trying to be the voice of reason, I'm keeping my nose out of it. If we lose, its because I couldn't carry. And if I couldn't, I want to know that I did everything within my power before accepting the loss.
I will take the measures into my own hands and give my own self permanent chat restriction. This means I will no longer be helping to report toxicity because I will never again experience it.
This means that every time I get pissy, it will be of my own accord (which thankfully only happens due to the insensitive comments of others towards myself or others). People have stolen my first camp and I still stay focused. Even team mates have taken my first camp or have refused to leash and I stay focused and win. But words... for some reason... get me tilted. So I will not deal with words anymore. You can physically injure me and my pride will stay intact and I won't attempt to injure you back. But what you say actually takes root and deals way more damage to me. So no more talk.
Talk is cheap anyway.
Problem solved.
Unethical?