But this is a new era for sensitivity and morals.
Morality is tricky business especially on a forum in which virtually every page is framed with pornographic imagery. I don't have a problem with the imagery, but then again, I'm not pushing morality.
But imagine if you will that some special interest group stumbles across the TMF and begins criticizing the members and the vendors for the "shameless exploitative degradation of women" depicted in the tickling videos. I strongly suspect that the pious pharisees who've been preaching morality in this thread would be the first to tell that special interest group where they can stick
their morality.
Legality becomes a coloring book when harm and emotion and privacy and personal space get mixed together.
I agree. And to extend the metaphor, there is a wide variety of crayons at work in this thread.
Go be a cashier. Come back in about two years time and post about it.
Been there. Done that. The cashiers I've worked with will tell you that if they suffered actual harm every time a customer was rude to them, they'd be dead inside of three months.
People who interface with the public understand that there are polite people, and there are rude people. When somebody is rude, you shine them on and forget about them. If you can't do that, you're in the wrong job.
DAJT is living in an alternative universe where no rules apply to him and everyone functions completely differently than they actually do in real life. Seriously, scientists should study him because he's clearly the gateway to another reality! 😉
Actually, I'm very rules oriented. For example, it's only because of the TMF rules that I'm so nice to you. Otherwise, we'd be having a very different conversation.
No, it's those who
resort to name calling that act like the rules don't apply to them.
As for my reality, it's a world where normal people understand that a simple touch is nothing to cry about and that there are much worse things that can happen to a person than a brief tickle from a stranger. I live in a world that doesn't guarantee that I will never be offended, and I'm okay with that. So, yeah, I can see how from YOUR world that would appear like an alternate reality.
The key words in the above are "vast majority." All it takes is one young woman [perhaps the niece of a judge or the daughter of a cop who is working as a cashier] who takes offensive enough to swear out a complaint against you. You likely won't be prosecuted but you will have to hire a lawyer until the case is dropped and you might even spend one night in jail until your bail hearing.
Sure, you run that risk (such that it is) everywhere you go in public. Somebody may not like the message on your T-shirt and decide to use whatever means they have to make life difficult for you.
It's a moot point. I'm never rude to cashiers, ever. My only point was that rudeness does not equate to harm, and that anybody who criticizes somebody for not emulating "the vast majority of normal people" just might be throwing stones in her proverbial glass house.
