(December 13, 2015 at 1:03 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: It is interesting, ethically, to examine this though. As CL says, does Rob go too far? Is he being a bully? Let's not make any assumptions and go with what we know from these screenshots.
We might be spending a little too much time analyzing something that might not even be real lol, but it's an interesting discussion to have I think.
The first 2 frames (the first being his comment about gay marriage and the second being his comment about Muslim folks), I agree deserved the harsh remarks from Rob. He also made one other nasty comment about refugees and gays.
...Apart from that, however, it seems to get into bullying territory when Rob starts making fun of literally everything the guy says - Movies, his misspelling, his comment about liking rain, his opinion on weed, his comment about 17 being a great age, bungee jumping, etc. It just seems like harassment at that point.
Obviously the dude is not very smart. Judging from how he's talking and from the other women defending him a little bit, I got the sense that he probably has some sort of mental illness or perhaps he's slow.
So yeah, when it extended beyond Rob's critique of Brandan's 2 comments about gays and 2 comments about Muslim, the rest I thought was crossing the line between deserved criticism and bullying.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
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