Guys, I think that it's important to let cooler heads prevail before you say something that you later regret. That's largely why I chose to step away from this conversation weeks ago. When you, or the person you're talking to, become(s) focused on defending yourself/themself, or even somebody else, then there is no longer a focus on defending your point or truth. So rather than abandon the topic at hand, I think it's better to step away for a while.
I don't know if there is pre-existing grudge here between brotherted and barbarictickler88 and you primetime, but you're answering every person that directly talks to you, and I think that you're getting overloaded with emotions. The nature of online discussions isn't always comforting. Even getting a reply makes you feel like someone is coming to attack you and an otherwise civil conversation triggers some people. I can't say that I'm immune to this.
I'm no moderator, but some of the things you've said recently were primarily to defend yourself, at somebody else's expense. People are saying things that are off the cuff here, and I know that can be irritating, but unless something is going on that can't be seen in this section of the forum, it's not cool talking to people like that here just for having a different opinion. I mean, it doesn't justify your worth as a person to hurt people, and I don't see how that's anything to be proud of. Truly great people lift people up, not bring them down. You're kind of dangerous if you think that hurting people justifies you as a person.
Now, regarding the topic of this forum, I don't know if it helps at this point to go any deeper into what I already said, but I have this to ask, primetime, because once I came to understand your exact standpoint, this is the first thing that came to my mind. When there is a controversial video circulating, either online or on the news, like a hate crime, or something that is a matter of life or death, or even something less serious, like a professional athlete cheating, or an altercation, do you believe that we can't accurately draw conclusions based on what we see just because we only saw it on the tv and weren't there?
I don't want to get too contrived, as it's 4:00a.m. and I'm a bit tired, but here's a couple of things to think about for consideration.
Not even getting into "deflategate" or some basketball players, like Lebron James' controversial game tactics, but here's a simple one. During a hockey game, if a player fouls a player on the opposing team on purpose to injure them out of the game, this warrants immediate judgement because the player's actions harm somebody else's wellbeing. And it can debatably be seen that what happened was or wasn't an accident based on certain factors. Would you say that just because we or even the ref wasn't on the ice, we couldn't see through the replay that they didn't do it on purpose based on how they positioned themself?
Or here's another one. If a video is circulating of an alleged case of police brutality, we couldn't judge and assume certain things based on what we saw in a video? Like if certain acts of violence on the part of an officer or a suspect were necessary for self-defense or not? We couldn't say if a "suspect" posed a credible threat or not, whether they were actually resisting or complying? We couldn't come to the conclusion that the officer used excessive force and is to blame for putting a suspect in critical condition in the hospital? Or that the victim of the beating was in pain? Just because we're not there, we can't see certain things like whether or not someone was making an attempt to submit and comply as opposed to trying to resist arrest? Or that an officer was acting out of fear and self-defense as opposed to out of anger and corruption?
These are things that are not experienced, but seen, and everyone feels compelled to answer whether they were there or not because they absolutely DEMAND some form of investigation and closure, and I don't think that these are things anybody including you would not admit you've come to conclusions about even though you weren't there.
Emotions and feelings run deep in our actions, and they make up reality, it's our RESPONSIBILITY as human beings to acknowledge this. There's no standard for it being unacceptable to use that sense or not, as long as your sense is reliable.
For some reason, you seem to prefer believing that during the circumstance of tickling or sex in a video that you can't know anything. In my opinion, you have a self-serving and partial opinion on this matter to discredit people for disagreeing with you, when disagreeing can inconvenience you by not allowing you to enjoy the things you enjoy.
That's essentially what I'm saying. You're against people acknowledging the capacity of their senses, but I'm for it, because it means more to me than just my right to judge videos, but life in general. It's giving up too much to not exercise that belief in my ability to come to a conclusion and say that I'm certain about somethings when I truly feel that's what's happening.
