Posts by Alan P
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Only one 'person' introduced this into a discussion about the legal defense of provocation:
damn...so if my lady comes at me with a pair of scissors, i cant stab her 216 times and mutilate her corpse then claim provocation?
Hardly "restraining and calming" is it?
And if you don't see what a cock that type of talk makes you, then I pity your family.Much as I told myself I wouldn't get sucked into this particular sub-debate, I can't help but point out that your out-of-context quote tends to misrepresent the OP somewhat.
- Seems to me the original comment was intended to highlight the absurdity of Weatherston's argument that his actions were somehow justified because he was provoked and/or defending himself, not indicate something the OP personally thinks is reasonable.
I'm not offering any opinion on whether the whole OP was well-advised or not of course.
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Personally I think your response was about right. And I wouldn't completely write off the possibility that you may have made some small change in their behaviour.
In my experience, some people seem to feel almost bound to respond aggressively in a situation which they perceive as a confrontation, in public. Especially in front of their friends. But, later, whether they consciously admit it to themselves or not, they probably realise that you were right, and may modify their behaviour accordingly in future, even if it's just because they are too lazy to deal with people like you who are actually prepared to react.
I doubt there was much you could have done differently to achieve a "better" outcome...
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Personally I suspect that our new government are, in the main, a bunch of lazy arseholes, who aren't really interested in what's right or wrong, just pushing their own perverse version of "how the world should be". That it also happens to align nicely with lining their, and their friends' pockets is possibly a contributing factor, of course.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"
- I think this sums up Smith's "gaff" quite nicely.That the majority of the public seem to either agree with them, or just can't tell that they're being screwed is beyond depressing...
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Dang - in the couple minutes it took me to type that, there's a number of replies already. Don't let it be said there's no life here...
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Great set list. If ever a set list deserved to be called eclectic, that one does.
btw, I know that a: you probably already knew this, and it's just a typo, and b: I'm just being pedantic, but - isn't "Surrender" a Cheap Trick song?