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lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 hours agoThat’s 15 seconds too long. You’re not entitled to annoy people just because they’ll be able to leave soon.
I think blanket ruling that “trying openers” is “annoying people” is invalid. Yeah, it might be annoying most of the time, but so are a lot of interactions. If you follow that road you’d end up with anyone who talks to someone ever deserving to die in a fire which I think is unreasonable.
If the worst thing that happens because you shoot your shot is you annoy someone for 15 seconds, then whatever. Take no for an answer is all I ask.
Yeah, it might be annoying most of the time, but so are a lot of interactions.
If those interactions are unnecessary then they shouldn’t happen either. Leave people the fuck alone.
If you follow that road you’d end up with anyone who talks to someone ever deserving to die in a fire which I think is unreasonable.
I never said anything about anyone deserving to die in a fire.
The whole mindset of even thinking about an “opener” or “shooting your shot” is creepy and entitled as fuck. Just be fucking normal, enter the elevator and say hi, then stfu and mind your business unless they give some indication that they’re interested in conversing with you. You’re not entitled to anyone’s attention and you don’t have a shot unless they offer you one.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That’s a faulty arguments, people are also not entitled to not be annoyed by the mere existence of others choosing to live their lives in a way that doesn’t actually hurt anyone.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 minutes ago
Your existence doesn’t annoy me, your insistence upon my attention does.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
So if I scream in your face for the duration of the ride on an elevator that’s perfectly fine because I’m not actually physically hurting you?