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So you're naturally a crass tool? This isn't about insecurity. It's about respect. Someone should really smack some sense into you. You've clearly never been on the victim's end.
WOW LMFAO
yes lets all revert to our animal nature and steal and **** and kill whatever we feel like because social norms and empathy are completely useless human inventions
Nice slippery slope!
Ohh dear god like.
Not a slippery slope argument as much as a response to MikeHaggar trivializing things that are fundamental to our humanity. I was merely highlighting the absurdity of describing empathy as "being insecure about what other people think" and construing it as some oppressive social construct.
yes i most definitely excluded empathy in what i just said
Not at all. You not including my last question in your quote and at the same time stating that it does actually hurt people implies there has been at least one instance of this happening. So, could you be so kind to show it to me (preferably by quoting this person’s post)?
Posts like this only reinforce my point. Your willingness to post this reply tells me that you accept the idea that you will offend your targets, Mike and myself, in an attempt to communicate your viewpoint. Asking a known **** victim to suck your dick is much more likely to have an emotional impact than referring to the game using the same language because you give it relevant context and direction. You have a strictly higher chance to be offensive this way because of your use of the same language. For a comparative example, I could say "Fox is a faggot" or I could say "Strong Bad is a faggot". Adam's viewpoint makes sense to me that the vulgarity still carries the negative connotation, but the context difference of making it more personal and targeting a specific person makes the latter statement substantially more likely to elicit a traumatic emotional response. It is your willingness to criticize an action and then do something strictly worse that makes the situation so ironic. And that's why you've missed the point completely. 0/10.
)You're right. You are just saying. No content there at all.
For all the abstract 'logic'-ing that has been going on in the past few pages, it's pretty disappointing how nobody has even responded to this, which is an actual, concrete example of what we're talking about. Are you guys really going to tell Strong Bad his feelings are illegitimate? And if not, what's your response?
Having thick skin and actually being insensitive are two different things. Clearly he's not insensitive to it if he plainly states it bothers him and he'd appreciate it if others would stop using the word that way. It obviously hurts, and he will not just suck it up and deal with it. He shouldn't have to. He's a human being, and he deserves respect.
There's not the same kind of sensetivity there. When was the last time you heard of somobody being offended because somebody said "I'm gonna kill you"? I guess it's because either death is so commonplace, or because we're all desensitised from seeing violence in the media.
*highfive* for having pretty much the same opinion on the matter as I do :3
