If you are a person who complains about smartphones making people anti-social

Marc v4.0 · 01-05-2015, 08:03 PM

Nah, if you've made it very clear through action or language that you aren't currently interested in conversing with a complete stranger in public and they want to keep pushing it, they are an asshole and a baby that is disrespecting your boundries

and she didn't say 'a babbeh that wants human interaction' she said 'a babbeh that needs constant attention'. Those are, in fact, not the same concepts and treating them as such is disingenuous.

What I'd like explained, in detail, is why said Stranger's desires somehow trump our own? If they don't give a shit enough to respect my desire to be left alone, what force is at work that demands I have to put up with it or *I* am the one that is being rude? Maybe I am already socially interacting with someone using my pocket computer that can literally reach anyone else on the internet or phone service in the entire world, and you are interrupting my text conversations with that person. Why not consider that?

01-05-2015, 08:03 PM	#7
Marc v4.0 Fight Me, Nerds Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 3,470	Nah, if you've made it very clear through action or language that you aren't currently interested in conversing with a complete stranger in public and they want to keep pushing it, they are an asshole and a baby that is disrespecting your boundries and she didn't say 'a babbeh that wants human interaction' she said 'a babbeh that needs constant attention'. Those are, in fact, not the same concepts and treating them as such is disingenuous. What I'd like explained, in detail, is why said Stranger's desires somehow trump our own? If they don't give a shit enough to respect my desire to be left alone, what force is at work that demands I have to put up with it or I am the one that is being rude? Maybe I am already socially interacting with someone using my pocket computer that can literally reach anyone else on the internet or phone service in the entire world, and you are interrupting my text conversations with that person. Why not consider that? __________________ Last edited by Marc v4.0; 01-05-2015 at 08:14 PM.