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[Mar. 11th, 2009|09:54 pm] |
Bearing in mind the responses to my last post about this link:
http://thingsarelookinup.com/Abuse/test.shtml
I suspect it would be an interesting exercise to go through it again with an extra tickbox, as to what behaviours you consider perfectly acceptable? Not just in relationships, either, outside of the canal world I generally find the way people treat each other, strangers as well as friends, increasingly despicable. No, it's not just the way people treat me, let's just take that as read.
Meanwhile, it's interesting to consider which concepts people consider subjective, and objective. On challenging a blogger recently on an outrageously sexist post that celebrates spring because young women dress to please the old men, he replied suggesting that I might think that was sexist, but he didn't. How fluid are such things, or is it merely a case of interpretation, spin? The BNP deny being rascist, say, even though they have policies which clearly show they are? Applying this directly to the above, some aspects of behaviour are obviously perfectly acceptable to some and beyond the pale to others. Normally that doesn't matter - who cares if we say loo, toilet or bog - but when it's how we treat each other, that's different. If there's two (or more) people involved, a giver & receiver, if you like, and I guess if they have compatible ideas of acceptibility, does that make it right, even if the behaviour itself could be objectively seen as unreasonable? |
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