Entitled people act as if the world revolves around them. But as annoying as they can be, sometimes these folks — more specifically, their misfortune — entertain us, too. (Just think of a greedy parent who says they can't contribute to raising their kid but when the court takes away their custody, they have to give up $1,750 every month.)
The subreddit '[Jerk] Tax' has plenty of these satisfying examples. According to its 'About' section, the online community is devoted to "stories of customers being charged more, through skipped discounts or other methods, when they have deserved it for infractions such as being rude, demanding, or otherwise a pain."
It also accepts the reverse, cases of the so-called decency discount for when customers pay less because they were not the jerk. But this time, let's focus on the vengeful side of karma. Continue scrolling to see what it looks like and don't miss the talk we had with Srini Pillay, M.D., chief medical officer of Reulay and author of 'Tinker Dabble Doodle Try: Unlock the Power of the Unfocused Mind.'
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Titles Are Hard
lets start a rebelion and downvote anna martin!!!
Load More Replies...I was in Atlanta one time and went to rent a car. Burdened by too much luggage, I was shouldered aside by a business type, who scooted in front of me to get to the available clerk. By the time I collected my things, another opening occured next to the one I'd been aiming for, and I overheard business type say he'd reserved a compact car. I gave my name to the other clerk, who'd seen the scuffle at the door, so when she came back, she said, sweetly, I'm sorry Mr. RT, we've just rented our last compact, She upgraded me to a Lincoln Town Car, a full-size, and cancelled the drop charge for leaving the car in Savannah. The look on business type's face was priceless.
Being in a wheelchair, I get ignored by clerks and baristas all the time and have to speak up, sometimes loudly. The people behind me in line will often walk right past me as if I'm invisible . It's so frustrating.
In the comic strip "For Better or For Worse" the girls are asking their wheelchair bound teacher how she knew she wanted to marry the man she did. She said, "He sat down to talk to me when we met." That taught me not to loom over people.
Load More Replies...Those who treat people poorly may lack empathy. "Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of empathy: cognitive empathy and emotional empathy," Pillay told Bored Panda.
"In the brain, they both involve different sets of anatomical structures. For a person to have empathy, these two brain systems must be able to function, and in people who lack empathy, they do not function well."
"For example, in psychopaths, the emotional empathy system is not activated as much as in people who are not psychopathic," the Harvard-trained psychiatrist and brain researcher explained. "Some regions involved in cognitive empathy (the ability to see things from someone else’s point of view) also do not function well. There is a range of capabilities when it comes to lacking empathy."
Asked My Baby Momma For $500 A Month
Not really... that means someones Mom doesn't want them and even if they are better off without her, it's quite sad.
Load More Replies...My niece’s sperm donor is pure demonic. He only works minimum wage jobs and no more than 20 hours a week in order to avoid paying child support. Worse, he refuses to marry his girlfriend because she makes a middle-class wage and if they were to marry, their combined income would require him to pay child support.
I know one of those people. Filth. Their life revolves exclusively around being petty. But in return, they are very prone to karma reaching them quickly and efficiently. :D
Load More Replies...Yes. I catch myself referring to my nieces baby daddy. It’s not a good phrase
Load More Replies...I love this. It's usually the men who do this s**t to women. So I'm happy to see the reverse. I'm a single dad and have been in a similar position.
Pillay said that there are no standard therapies for conditions where egoistic behavior is prominent such as antisocial and narcissistic personality disorders.
In such cases, especially when an early developmental trauma led to these conditions, long-term psychotherapy is usually recommended.
"However, there are approaches such as transference-focused psychotherapy and anecdotal use of psychodynamic-based psychotherapies with some success," the brain researcher added. "So, overall, there are therapies that can help this but the treatments are challenging."
5$ Tax
My mother and I got our pocketbooks picked at Mardi Gras in by 1977. They got an ancient paperback romance from me; they got my mother’s sunglasses. They were prescription glasses fro her legally blind 20/400 eyesight. Later, 1983-1084, my husband and I went to the Winnipeg Zoo, leaving his touring class BMW motorcycle in the parking lot. Wet got robbed; they broke into one of the saddle bags. From this, the took my leather motorcycle pants. They had been my ex’s (he might have weighed 125 lbs). They were scuffed from an accident he had….and American size 1. They took his tank bag; the contents were a pair of $5 plastic cowboy boots and his electric shaver, which Noah used on the ark. They didn’t get into the other saddlebag which had his very expensive camera in it. All the things taken from these incidents probably weren’t worth a grand total of no $20. To me, that’s a lovely couple attacks on karmic retribution.
Load More Replies...I thought you were going to say they were arrested as a result of finger prints let on the $20 bill
You know how many finger prints are on one bill? A lot. :) Also, gloves...
Load More Replies...lol. Is that still robbery though? He left with less than he went in with, so is that illegal?
Yeah attempted theft using fear and malice.
Load More Replies...Lol 😆 🤣 still illegal to answer any questions as it was attempted theft with malice.
And this is why convenience stores do frequent cash drops in their safe.
And he'll still be charged with armed robbery even though he took a loss on the transaction. 😁
The plot of Woody Allen's "Take the Money and Run". The note it not legible and the bank personnel get together to try and figure out why the note says "I have a gub". A very fun movie.
Load More Replies...Scrolling through these pictures, you might feel disappointment or even anger toward their villains. But that's perfectly normal. "If you are an empathic person, seeing someone being hurt as a result of a jerk will activate your own mirror neurons, making you feel the pain of the victim," Pillay added.
"Also, we carry impressions of social rules in our brains, and when these are violated, we may even have exaggerated reactions."
"Reactions are partly due to moral emotions but may differ by culture," he said. "For example, one study revealed that reactions to violating someone's autonomy are similar in India and Britain, but Indian participants express more moral outrage than do Britons when there are violations of community."
When You Try To Sue A Restaurant For No Reason And Lose
So many large corporations get away with this sort of thing because the smaller companies can't always afford decent legal fees, the big guys know this so use bully boy tactics .
There is a small restaurant in Scotland called McDonalds so McDonalds sued them for infringement - turns out the owner was the leader of clan McDonald who threatened to take away their right to use the name
Wouldn't call Supermacs a small chain, they are well all over Ireland, is some places they are only "fast food" chain operating as others couldn't compete with them.
ATTN: william mcgloin - - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/15/mcdonalds-loses-big-mac-trademark-legal-battle-supermacs
Thos Pizza Store Knows
This reminds me of a " prices document " ( dunno the right term in English sorry ) that was displayed at my mechanic store lmao. " Hour of labour - 24€ ", " hour of labour with the costumer looking at me - 35€ ", " hour of labour with the costumer giving me his opinions - 45€ " ...
Electrician friend of mine has something similar on a t shirt. Particularly more expensive if they say things like, it is just a small job and it won't take long. They are rarely right.
Load More Replies...Once had a customer when I first started working in a plant nursery and I didn't know much about the stock. A lady got angry with me and complained to the other staff member. She really went for it too calling me a moron and I should never be allowed to work here. What she didn't realise was the other staff member was my older brother hahaha her $30 palm trees she got cost her $60 each as a result.
unfortunately here that would not work as our payment systems are almost 100% digitised so he'd not be able to overrule the product database. But still really excellent story.
Load More Replies...Whoever invented that customer is always right thing deserves all of their left socks stolen
I learned not too long ago that the original of that quote is "IN MATTERS OF TASTE, the customer is always right." Makes a big difference. Two of my retail jobs were a framing shop and a fabric store. When a customer asked me about a frame and matte, or dress fabric and trim, that they clearly liked but I thought was hideous, I learned to say, "Oh, yes, that's very effective," or 'What an interesting combination," or something that would sound positive, without my having to say it was beautiful.
Load More Replies...At my Goodwill, if we know you pulled the tag off an item and we have to give you a price, it's going to be way higher than it would have been.
I do this. If a customer gives me sh1t I add 30% to the price without informing them. If they ask for a discount I then offer 5% and let them haggle me down 10%. Still come ahead 20%. If they are nice I offer the discount upfront.
However, if you want a more spiritual or philosophical explanation of the pictures, we can look at the idea of karma which originated in Indian religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. Of course, the notion that good and bad deeds will be rewarded with the same results is widely spread in the West too. The popular saying "What goes around comes around” and the much older proverb “As you sow, so shall you reap” are excellent examples of that.
This line of thought teaches us that everything that happens to us is ultimately due to our own influence—whether intentional or not—and that coincidence is in reality an illusion.
Self-described Buddhist physician Alex Lickerman, M.D., thinks that general causality is something everyone understands and believes, namely that every effect has a cause.
"We may not be able to identify what particular cause is responsible for a particular effect, but it's difficult, if not impossible, to conceive of an effect that has no cause," he wrote. "Buddhism, however, takes this principle of general causality even further. It denotes the principle of cause and effect as a universal law that governs not just the physical universe but our own lives as well."
50 Purse Cents For My Birthday
If they added 50% first it's actually 15 and if they took it first it's still 15.
I coined of thought so, too. Okay, I'll show myself out.
Load More Replies...I wouldn't have continued this conversation. You come work for me for free and then we'll talk.
I wish you were the person replying to them lol ..love that comeback.
Load More Replies...I am still trying to figure out what 50 purse cents is? Is that like 50 cents you find in the bottom of your purse?
8.5x Markup
They most likely just made a mistake but the customer would have profited from it.
Load More Replies...Side point, zucchini is a baby vegetable so they can get very big and then are called marrows.
Well I never. TIL courgettes (UK for zucchini)are baby marrows..
Load More Replies...They aren't. He was fussing because the cashier called it the wrong item.
Load More Replies...Zucchinis that grow too large lose their flavour and are generally only good for soups
I Have A Boyfriend!
Most women had bad encounters with stranger man. If people would randomly slap you on your face, no one would blame you for protecting your face all the time, even if most people don't slap at all. The problem is with the men who give girls hard time and with the other men who blame women that protect themself but don't say a thing to the men we are protecting from.
Depends how he approached. Was it "pardon me," and she reacted before he said anything else or did he say something less innocuous like "yo, babe, I got something for you?" The bad-uns are actually not that common, just seems more common because of how many people they affect. If a guy says something innocuous that anyone might use to get a person's attention give them a moment to see which response is correct. I mean, do you interact briefly then go your separate ways, simply say no thanks, or nuke them from orbit, just to be sure? Depends on what comes after the initial greeting.
Load More Replies...I don't blame girl. They put up with a lot of c**p and tend to have defenses up. I would have taken a second shot at giving her the tickets back.
I DO blme the girl she didn't have to react that way right off the bat. Not every guy wants to f**k every woman and they should respect us as much as we should respect them. Entitlement because you think everyone wants to f**k you is b******t and she recieved what she deserved for being that way.
Load More Replies...To be fair, we don't know how he approached her, nor her past experiences. Imo a lot better lesson would have been to give the tickets back regardless, visibly upset about her reaction: if she has any decency she would have been embarrassed, and maybe even learned something. But now all she knows is just that she lost the tickets, possibly without even regretting her behavior at all.
I think you make a very valid point, but I want to point out she might not have let him. My husband once wanted to give a girl at the shop a coupon back that she lost and she was convinced he tried to gift her that coupon as a way of flirting. And he just said: excuse me miss! You lost something. I had to step in and hand her that thing telling her that yes indeed she lost it to stop her making a scene.
Load More Replies...And they say, "no good deeds go unpunished." I'm sure you had a fantastic time at the game.
Women like her react like this because they have been consistently and relentlessly harassed. Op and the other commenters seems to think she should have telepathically known he wasn’t another harasser or she should always be “nice” just in case one out of twenty of the guys who approach her randomly aren’t harassers. Unfortunately, being “nice” just wastes your time and gets you more harassment.
In that situation telling me that they have a bf hurts me not one iota - I have some empathy for women in the street harassment that they face. I’ve heard from my daughters (13 and 16) the frequent abuse they get on the way to facking school for facks sake. This constant barrage of unwanted attention will obviously strain people’s politeness - saying “I have a bf” is hardly public humiliation to the op. My response might be a simple “No no , you dropped your tickets”, hand over, followed by swift exit - I don’t need effusive thanks for doing the right thing, neither do I need to judge whether the recipient is worthy of my chivalry 🙄
My hope. is that she realized what you were trying to do and felt stupid
Basically, it works like this: everything we say, think, and do serves as a cause that will, at some time in the future, when circumstances are right, manifest an effect.
"In one sense, this seems obvious: if you get angry (cause) you might get punched (effect). But Buddhism takes this even further, arguing that all the causes we make are recorded at some level in our lives as if they were transactions in a bank," Lickerman highlighted.
"Making a good cause would be like depositing money that can be withdrawn at some point in the future while making a bad cause would be like borrowing money that at some point in the future will have to be repaid. So if, for example, you slander someone today, that might result in them slandering you tomorrow (if they hear about it)—or it might result in you breaking your leg."
Good For Them, Honestly
The mindset they have, they are now considered the offspring of “Karens”
It was with these words that my friend and I came to the same conclusion. :)
Load More Replies...They're a public health problem, too, snapping up all the semaglutide for (temporary, no less) weight loss and leaving diabetics without a key medication. #InfluencersAreGross
Then they go for ice cream.... free they think. Wonder what their parent's think about who they raised...?
Load More Replies...This reminds me last NYE dinner at our hotel restaurant. It was bombarded with influencers, it's beyond disgusting. They all think they're God's gift to mankind.
I’m sorry but what is everyone going on about? I see a picture of a man in a ball cap with an ice cream cone… What am I missing?
Load More Replies...I wish I could up this multiple times! 'Influencers' is another term for deceiving others for ones own benefit and misguided sense of self-importance. #InfluencersAreGross
#InfluencersAreGross Also, for anyone wondering, the shop seems to mostly be in California. Look on their website and see what you can find!
Are they actually influencing anyone? I doubt it. Let's start calling them Instatwats.
In many cases, sadly yes. Often it's the worst (in terms of personality) that have the most influence over their followers. Do not underestimate the damage influencers can cause just because there's a bunch who aren't that successful as well. On the other hand, there's many that also do a lot of good with their influence. It's a big mistake to write it off as some unimportant nonsense, though. A lot of it may be nonsense, but it's nonsense that absolutely is affecting the behavior of people.
Load More Replies...Our Local Paper Runs A Shame Column
I am not sure if it would be legal everywhere, but it sure seems fair.
If they've got the receipts, they're probably safe from any libel suits
Load More Replies...Here in Virginia we have state approved shame. Crime Times is a physical paper you can find at most convenience stores thats published weekly with mugshots from the last week. Its epic.
I don't know how I feel about that. Mugshots don't mean that someone is guilty, it just means they were arrested.
Load More Replies...Most people will work with you. A small business can be on the edge of disaster at all times so they pay the most important bills first - rent, utilities whatever... and the lesser bills last. If you talk to the people you owe, my experience is that they'll be understanding about it and work with you. E.g. don't ghost them. Communicate.
yep these all look like small companies. In my experience, small companies often pay, it's the big ones that you have to beg and plead.
Load More Replies...I wish we'd do that for child support here in the US (I don't even have kids.)
My county actually does. They get criminal charges at over so much, so the county posts names and mug shot and the amount they owe. One guy was down for over the limit for 4 different women.
Load More Replies...At first I thought it was the rude people being called out, in my town if so, the whole newspaper will be full
Everyone Should Apply This Rule
No Way! It's My birthday too! *raises price 100%*
Load More Replies...I feel bad that haggling is no longer a thing, yet also immensely relieved it’s no longer a thing because I’d never be able to do it. 😂
For free? I will mention you on my instagram! I have like 2k followers.
I used to work for a very large, well-known used book store in NYC. I happened to be near the buyback table when I heard one of our buyers make an offer of $40 for this one person's box of books. The wannabe seller said, "How about $50?" to which the buyer shot back, "How about $30?" I think they wound up getting $35. Should've kept your mouth shut.
People of certain nationalities do this. They want Champagne for a tap water price.
Haggling With Tattoo Artists Is Never Advisable
I cOulD gEt It ChEaPeR sOmEwHeRe ElSe. Well then go there and don't bother me. I hated people like that when i worked in retail a few years ago
Having to explain to them that you don't make the prices or to join the rewards program over and over again. I did but I lost the card. I don't have time. You all should have the same price. Blah blah all day long 🤬
Load More Replies...You’d be surprised how often that happens. In my line of work, there are different tiers, depending on your training and qualification, even though we might provide the same service. I often compare it to hairdressing, you can get your hair cut by a trainee or by a master hairdresser. The service is the same (ie you get a hair cut) but the price will be vastly different (and quite probably the quality, too) You’d be surprised by the amount of times people ask me to reduce my fees because a nurse practitioner charges less for the same service. When I tell them to go see a nurse practitioner, they then say “but I want to see you, because you’re so much more qualified!” And they really don’t seem to see the flaw in their logic.
Tattoos are really something you don't want to cheap out on. It takes me forever to save up for mine because I go to a really good tattooist.
There's times when going cheap is fine, tattoos are not one of them.
I will never, ever understand these people who insist on getting the price they ask for for items. You can ask, sure. But if they say no, I don't get the entitlement to somehow make the other person the bad guy. It happens a lot online, too. You'll see posts from women saying 'I'm a single mom so you should just give it to me' or 'it's my son's birthday and if you don't give it to me then you're going to be responsible for ruining his birthday.' It's so whacko!
I hate this! I don't even always ask for senior discount...actually I'm a little hurt when they do this without my asking..LOL. But no, to ask for something because it's a birthday or whatever (altho some places have birthday clubs, that's different) is something I wouldn't even think of doing. If something can be ruined that easily, why even bother?
Load More Replies...If you want tattoos, and want them well executed, don’t be a cheapskate! Always be nice to your tattooist and you might get little favours in return. My last one was a couple of hours work, but I had a little one of an asterism, or constellation, (Ursa Major and Polaris), that I wanted done. I showed her the design, and she said it would take about five minutes, so as the main one went a bit quicker, she just went ahead and included the second one for free. It did, literally take her about five minutes. Being nice costs nothing.
Had a similar situation years ago. Friend of a friend needed a video edited for their business. I gave a price, they came back saying they found someone who could do it for way cheaper. I realized it wasn't worth my time at that price so I told them to hire that guy. No idea what happened after that. I think they were sore that I refused to haggle. I don't like haggling for anything.
However, the lines are often blurry. "The chain of causation that connects original causes (e.g., slander) to their manifest effects (e.g., a broken leg) is simply too sublime to trace from beginning to end, making it difficult, if not impossible, for us to believe such a chain even exists," Lickerman acknowledged.
"In fact, according to Buddhist thought, it requires nothing short of a great awakening—enlightenment itself—for a person to perceive the workings of this law of cause and effect in his or her own life."
This Lasertag Place I Went To Today
NO IT MOST CERTAINLY IS NOT!! MAY I SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER!!! /s
Load More Replies...Grouchy is kinda mean to add to this. Just because someone isn't visibly happy to be there, it doesn't mean that they're being rude- this goes both ways. Let's not be just as bad as those customers who clutch their pearls every time a cashier isn't grinning ear to ear at them.
Does the customer get $10 if the employee is grouchy, irritable or rude?
I need this at my job, I love serving people but not the horrible ones!
Me too there some really rude people out there. Very entitled treat any workers like s**t an do not have common decency.
Load More Replies...What if I am Grouchy and Irritable but NOT mean?? What if I am Grouchy and Irritable but polite??
I Think This Fits Here
Should have let her walk out if she needed so 😈 EDIT: I know how pressure works, thank you very much.
This is why all new planes should be built with airlocks.
Load More Replies...It looks like really bad lip fillers, I think 😗
Load More Replies...I think she's attempting a duck face but the Botox on her upper lip won't let her.
Load More Replies...She also served time in jail. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-51478329
Yeah she looks like she'd do that, honestly. She needs to cut back on those crazy fillers, too. Anyone doing something like this should be banned by all airlines for life. She put everyone's lives at risk. I know the door won't actually open but she could have caused a situation where people were scared, they could have had a heart attack, or she could have gotten someone seriously hurt.
It was. But I've noticed it has come back. 😭 Or some variation of it at least. And with fillers this time.
Load More Replies...Found This On /Holup & /Lgbtq
Fake as hell sorry but I have seen this posted at least 100 times all over the web. They didn't even bother to change the wording.
I don't really mind that much if it is. It made me smile. I love a good tale about some brat getting their comeuppance. Or in this case, a family. Or not.
Load More Replies...Now I have a backup plan if coming out doesnt work for me (probably will my parents are awesome but still it's good to have one)
Preemptive Block!
If I have to hear "Why haven't I received my invoice yet?" (Because Royal Mail have either lost it or it's due to the strike) "BUT I'VE RECEIVED MY OTHER MAIL!!" (But I don't work for RM - Can I email it to you?) "NO, I WANT A PAPER COPY!". Or a classic... "I told the engineer what the problem was so why didn't take so long to fix it and why is the part more expensive than on Amazon?" (Why not fix it yourself then? PROBLEM SOLVED!!)
Sometimes it's at least worth mentioning. I went to my local store for a $15 dollar item, but didn't want to wait a couple days for shipping. The store wanted $70 for it. F that. And yes, I told them their prices were ridiculous. I get physical stores need to charge more, but gouging should be called out when it happens.
I don't mind when a store price is higher than online. I do have a problem when it's the exact same product but double the price. Example needed a part for my furnace and found it online for just under 20 brand new. The only store that I could find that carried it had it for 45. Same exact product, manufacturing, etc
I might be able to find it cheaper online, but in a physical store I have a much greater chance of getting a refund if those parts turn out to be c**p.
There are a few stores around my area that will match prices if you can prove the cheaper price. Seems to work well for their business.
Can i get a discount for saying i couldn't find it cheaper online?
Tbf, if we’re talking about garages, it’s different - as a lot of the time they overprice things by far.
I'm sure I *could* find the part cheaper on line. But could I install it? That's why I'm at a repair shop in the first place!
However, if we accept the possibility that we ourselves have made the causes of all the effects we currently experience in our lives, does that then mean the woman who suffers abuse at the hands of her husband or boyfriend is to blame for it? Or even worse, deserves it?
"From the Buddhist perspective, we are indeed responsible, but importantly not to blame, for every effect we experience (blame accruing only if we intend to yield a particular effect at the moment we made the cause for it)," Lickerman said.
Take The Discount
Don't upvote the grammar bullies, guys. People can be dyslexic, or perhaps English isn't their first language, or they had the misfortune to be home-schooled by idiots. And Jay Son is absolutely correct: there shouldn't be a space before the comma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
Load More Replies...I read that phonetically as "aroogah", like the cartoon horn sound lol
Googled it, and we have 5 persons in swe with name as first name.. but yea prob.
Load More Replies...This is a fake message thing online, my friends’ ex used the same one to ‘prove’ he wasn’t cheating on onlyfans, by creating a fake message from only fans saying ‘ hello, you haven’t used onlyfans for a while? ‘ 🙈 Anyway, it’s definitely fake.
Karen Plays Herself Out Of 20¢
Agreed. It's always on here. I saw it last week on a thread about budgerigars.
Load More Replies...Lol. How is wanker not censored? BP slipping.
Load More Replies...Temecula's gotta Temecula. (I should explain that Temecula is a town in California populated mostly by "wine moms" and is a spring time tourist trap for Karens. A good friend of mine lived there for a bit and visiting her was....interesting)
Excellent Special Pricing Section
What does student of life mean and why charge $20 for it. Lol aren't we all students of life
It's for the people who aren't students but ask for the student discount.
Load More Replies...Oh, please tell me "or better" isn't going to come to mean "older."
The price hike of how cheap the tickets used to be shouldn't apply to people going senile
"Whether or not you deserved it isn't even a consideration," he explained. "Through the inexorable workings of cause and effect, you received the effect of the cause you made. The law of cause and effect is impartial, impersonal, and strict, just like the law of gravity, requiring no higher power to make it run."
However, the physician thinks there's a silver lining. "It explains how bad things can happen to good people (everyone has made bad causes in the past, and each cause carries with it an effect that must at some point be experienced in the future). It also, most importantly, places the power to change our destiny firmly in our own hands."
Found This At Good Burger
Welcome to good burger, home of the good burger. May I take your order?
Wonder if anyone whined and got charged the $5, then whined about that and got charged another $5
There You Go
Not necessarily. It's quite possible to do this. Source: me, programmer.
Load More Replies...Bruh that's actually rude this dude was just complaining on yt or whatever
New Sign For The Barber Shop
If you argue with our local barber you will be in pain!
Load More Replies...It's my personal policy to never argue with folks who use sharp instruments in their business.
@2WheelTravlr I think people who fear that kind of situation are justified how ever they may react. I mean, we can all cope with a little rudeness surely. I'm just saying that if this girl behaved the way she did maybe we shouldn't be offended by her words, but rather, what made her this way. Now, this is all hypothetical of course, maybe she was just being rude. But likely to have such a strong response, there was more to it. I don't understand why so many people are getting offended by her saying she already has a bf. It's not like she was personally attacking the person!
"we shouldn't be offended by her words, but rather, what made her this way" is a really good point and I 100% agree with that. However, I still have to disagree with the first statement. There's no justice in a rude response to someone who's not at fault. If anything it's just another injustice. While there are explanations for our behaviors, and even bad behaviors can be *understood*, sometimes even excused, we are still responsible for our actions. Bad experiences are an explanation, but not a justification. Our bad experiences don't make our bad behaviors acceptable, only understandable.
Load More Replies...@2WheelTravlr I think people who fear that kind of situation are justified how ever they may react. I mean, we can all cope with a little rudeness surely. I'm just saying that if this girl behaved the way she did maybe we shouldn't be offended by her words, but rather, what made her this way. Now, this is all hypothetical of course, maybe she was just being rude. But likely to have such a strong response, there was more to it. I don't understand why so many people are getting offended by her saying she already has a bf. It's not like she was personally attacking the person!
"we shouldn't be offended by her words, but rather, what made her this way" is a really good point and I 100% agree with that. However, I still have to disagree with the first statement. There's no justice in a rude response to someone who's not at fault. If anything it's just another injustice. While there are explanations for our behaviors, and even bad behaviors can be *understood*, sometimes even excused, we are still responsible for our actions. Bad experiences are an explanation, but not a justification. Our bad experiences don't make our bad behaviors acceptable, only understandable.
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