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

[Marc v4.0]

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?

[Red Mage Black]

Originally Posted by Marc v4.0

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

She never said, "keep pushing it". Just people that want to converse on public transport. You'll notice I took the post literally.

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.

I believe the correct words were, verbatim, "like why can't you just be comfortable in silence? Are you a babbeh that needs constant attention?" Like the most horrible thing in the world is having someone who just wants to have a conversation on public transport. If it bothers you so much, just ignore them rather than complain about it. Getting all huffy and puffy about it is a waste of energy.

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?

I never made that claim and implying that's what I said is disingenuous. Again, if you don't like it? Ignore them, but thinking of them as 'attention seeking babbehs' makes you sound like an asshole.

And stop trying to pick a fight.

[MSperoni]

Originally Posted by Red Mage Black

And stop trying to pick a fight.

He isn't.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Red Mage Black

She never said, "keep pushing it". Just people that want to converse on public transport. You'll notice I took the post literally.

If someone has headphones in they don't want to talk. If someone is reading, they probably don't want to talk. Any attempt to converse with someone doing either, much less both of them, is explicitly ignoring pretty obvious and ubiquitous social cues that they don't want to speak to complete strangers right now. Who also have no right to worry about her or my problems.