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moevillini said:
I disagree.
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Well, Mo, if ya don't mind, lemme see if I can pin down where you're coming from. I don't think you ever directly responded to my scenario, so let me resurrect it.

Assume it's late at night, you're leaving a bar, and you happen to notice someone pissing in the alley. Let's assume that they were not deliberately trying to "expose" themself to you. So, then, in that case:

1. Do you feel compelled to call the police?
2. Are you going to wait at the alley entrance until they emerge and then give them a stern warning and lecture about their impropriety, while assuring them that the next time you see them doing it, you're gunna call the cops?
3. Are you gunna immediately attempt to effectuate a "citizen's arrest."
4. Are you gunna avoid confrontation but bitch and moan about the whole incident to your companion all the way home, fretting about the "offensivemess" of it all for hours?
5. Are ya just gunna go on to your car and not really give it a second thought, or what?
 
Hopper said:
4. Are you gunna avoid confrontation but bitch and moan about the whole incident to your companion all the way home, fretting about the "offensive" of it all for hours?
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Kind of an unfair question. Moe is female, after all.
 
I don't think he's so easily crushed. Though he's probably disappointed that there aren't any actual Canadian teams in the NHL finals.


(note: this response makes much more sense in threaded view. just sayin'....)


and aint, why does it matter how I would personally respond? I'd still think it's disgusting. Public urination is not something I would advocate as a general routine course of action.
 
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Another scenario, just to kinda elucidate what I'm tryin to get at.

Suppose someone tells me they don't like my religion, my race, my sexual orienation, or the color of my shirt. Obviously I'm being "dissed," so how should I respond, and what, exactly, are my rights so I can make that person pay for disagreeing with, and disrespecting me?

Let's take their blatant "insensitivity" a step further and assume they have flatly said: "Your [religion, race, or whatever] sucks." OK, now they have really tromped on all boundries of propriety, doncha think? So what can/should I do? Should I get defensive and beligerant?

My first question would simply be: So what? Who cares? Do I give a rat's *** about what this guy thinks? Has he "hurt" me by not sharing my values?

The last thing that would occur to me would be that I needed to call Mama and have her make him stop.
 
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moevillini said:
and aint, why does it matter how I would personally respond? I'd still think it's disgusting. Public urination is not something I would advocate as a general routine course of action.
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Heh, Darlin, stayin just as slippery as ever, eh? Why doncha nevva jizt anza da dam kwezchun, I ax ya?

I wanna know what kinda mod you're gunna be, how much of an officious prude you might be, and all that, just for my own protection, ya know?
 
moevillini said:
and aint, why does it matter how I would personally respond? I'd still think it's disgusting. Public urination is not something I would advocate as a general routine course of action.
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There are probably millions of things which I think are disgusting and would not advocate as a routine course of action, but nonetheless would never try to make illegal or believe that someone should be arrested or "punished" for doing, ya know?

Eatin like a damn pig until you're fatter than a damn hog, for example.
 
Hopper said:
5. Are ya just gunna go on to your car and not really give it a second thought, or what?
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Mo, I think I know you well enough to believe that this (#5) would be your response. So here's the real question: Suppose you're with some high-strung Babe who immediately starts screaming hysterically and insisting the police be called. Are you gunna indulge her, dial 911 on your cell phone, and give her 100% support because she has the "right" to be offended, or are ya just gunna tell the bitch to chill out?
 
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This is the thread where aint whines about other people who whine, right? But his whining is different than their whining because he's right and they're wrong? And this isn't about the past, but only because he just thought of a great intellectual debate he had to share about the nature of being offended? I think I got it. What a coincidence that it corresponds directly with the slight he incurred by being banned that he's completely above and can barely remember because he doesn't get offended.
 
moevillini said:
not a crime at all. i just have little patience for answering endless reams of them.
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Well, Mo, there's a difference between answering one (or two, or three) fairly simple questions and "endless reams" of them, aint they? Just tell me how many you're willing to answer, and I will pick out the most important ones that I want to ax. Probably startin with your phone number and home address, ya know?
 
Let us all take extra care to avoid both giving and taking offense.
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Do not let yesterday hold tomorrow hostage! Walk away from your investment in the penny stock of pride; it never pays dividends.
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The key is to have our eyes wide open to our own faults and partially closed to the faults of others—not the other way around! The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.
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*bows head in shame.

I have a lot to work on. ;)
 
Either way, I think it's a good reminder not to be offended. I've been studying for the past hour or so about being offended and this is what I found.

1. We are more easily offended when we feel insecure about ourselves.
2. Although we sometimes don’t like to admit it, the intent of someone’s criticism may be to help us.
3.
Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath
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4. Don't seek revenge.
Once there was a group of teenagers who were picnicking in the desert outside Phoenix, Arizona. One of the girls was bitten by a rattlesnake. Instead of immediately seeking medical attention, the group pursued the snake and sought revenge by killing it with rocks. Unfortunately, during the precious minutes that the group wasted in exacting revenge, the poison had time to move from the surface of the girl’s skin into the tissues of her foot and leg; her leg later had to be amputated below the knee.
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5. We need to take the initiative by seeking reconciliation with the person who offended us. The best way to do so is to quietly take the person aside and openly discuss the situation.

I know some might think this is stupid, but hey, it's helped me a lil.
 
Hopper said:
Cool, Archie, thanks for sharing that. You appear to be a much bigger man than some of the pygmies who want to constantly attack you.
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Not really. That's the problem. I wish I had alligator skin more often than not. Anyways, I'll at least try not to react so much to the hacks. FTH!
 
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