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Cool story, but why end it gloating over someone else's misery?
by bobmaxup 5y ago
Cool story, but why end it gloating over someone else's misery?
- ianai 5y agoThat’s not gloating.
- bobmaxup 5y ago> He went from partner at a well funded firm to east LA metal salvage work. It was such an amazing feeling. I read it as such. Any specific reason that you disagree?
- ianai 5y agoIt probably fits an exact definition of gloating “X experienced Y, and I felt amazed.” But it’s a pretty minimal statement. Gloating, real gloating, requires a bit more verbiage. OP just related what would have otherwise gone known by the reader but unsaid. No one should be held to pure stoicism - especially not when a printer is thrown at them. OP even later expresses compassion for the person. That’s far from gloating. And before someone intones that that is itself gloating - again, you still need more.
- louwrentius 5y agoIndeed, if you hurl printers at people, there is something so wrong with you mentally, the only fair response is compassion and pity in my view.
- ianai 5y agoReally? You think the rational and common reaction is to express compassion and pity for the person throwing the printer? I wouldn’t throw printers at people. For one thing, they might throw it back. For two, I don’t violently attack people…
- tnzm 5y agoThe rational and common reaction is to duck.
- em-bee 5y agodepends on the angle the object is coming at you. with a heavy object that's being hurled at your feet the chance that it flies high enough to pass over your head and back if you duck is low.
- louwrentius 5y agoDon’t you understand how terrible things must be for you in your head to get to a point where you can’t resist throwing printers at people?
- toomanybeersies 5y agoNormal people don't throw printers at other people, because they're aware it's against social convention and liable to get them fired (or worse).
- kbelder 5y agoAnd because it might hurt somebody. Actually, that's the main reason people don't do it.
- heavyset_go 5y agoThere are plenty of assholes who do shitty things because they're just entitled. There's no need to pathologize shitty people.
- louwrentius 5y agoThat's such a convenient and easy answer.
- heavyset_go 5y agoShitty behavior is just evidence of shitty behavior. "Throwing things at coworkers" isn't a symptom of any mental illness, and without evidence of actual mental illness, pathologizing such behavior is conjecture at best.
- louwrentius 5y agoThat's such a convenient and easy answer.
- snovv_crash 5y agoIt's the feeling of vindication that perhaps there is some justice in the world.
- moistbar 5y agoIt's hard not to gloat over the misery of someone who, guaranteed, caused at least as much misery to multiple other people.