Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 7-11 January 2019 (3911-3915)
Case:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 12 Jan 2019, 00:50 ---I really can't believe how impassioned and out-of-proportion this debate has got.
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*Checks thread-title* Uhmmmmmmh ... :psyduck:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 12 Jan 2019, 00:50 ---Let me summarise in the simplest terms I know.
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Please do. Thank you for your consideration.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 12 Jan 2019, 00:50 ---Faye was not being cruel or malicious. She was upset because her friend had been seriously hurt, indeed nearly killed. She was reacting to this by lashing out verbally at the most proximate cause for her own distress to hand. This is not a moral failing; it's being human.
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Pretty good point, actually.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 11 Jan 2019, 10:35 ---No one has mentioned the liability of whoever the nincompoop was that left a crate of bananas on the traveled portion of the sidewalk, particularly in a neighborhood frequented by abnormally large sentient robots. Crushie's insurance carrier is no doubt investigating the possibility of subrogating to recover at least part of their loss. (Proportional liability - how much of the fault rests with Crushbot and how much with the Banana Leaver - will be discussed in pretrial negotiations and argued at court if the case goes to trial, but they seldom do.)
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Wel, no one of any consequence. And even they haven't mentioned it for a while....
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 22 Dec 2018, 20:14 ---Whoever negligently left the bananaskins on the footpath better have good insurance, or this will not end well.
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War Sparrow:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 11 Jan 2019, 18:09 ---I've actually put a good amount of thought into this when my best friend got hit by a septigenerian lady with terrible cataracts in both eyes. Turns out her kids (who were also her lawyers) knew and let her continue driving anyways.
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Well, that's alarming. What happened?
ZoeB:
1) What Faye said was entirely human nature. It was also farnarkling insensitive and even cruel. Her Bad.
2) Depending on Crushbot's mental state, it could be just as psychologically damaging to him as his fall was to Roko. An accident, to be sure.
3) Examining deeds not words, Faye is trying to make things right. So not deliberately cruel.
4) Faye may have a more robust and forthright relationship with Crushbot than I've allowed for, due to past history. Chance of psychologically hurting Crushbot might be negligible, and she knows it.
5) *I* still like Crushbot. So she's wrong.
Oh and by the way - I wasn't allowed to renew my driver's licence here in Australia at age 60 as I failed the quickie eyesight test at the motor registry. Not till I got a full workup from an optometrist, and a formal letter saying I was safe as long as I had annual checkups henceforth.
SordidEuphemism:
I guess I'm in the minority here. I didn't read it as an intentional expression of anger from Faye at all, but more as a Southern Grandma thing.
"Bernard, nobody's gonna like you for a little while. You need to deal with that."
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