Sure there is. Take this entire discussion as a primary example. You "feel" I badly handled a situation that YOU didn't witness, and were not a part of, based on YOUR interpretation, and YOU are all "emotional" about it. There's nothing "scientific" about it, and it all boils down to a busybody sticking their nose into someone elses business.
First of all, I didn't claim that any of those things were psychological facts. Just observations.
Second of all, your own reaction was clearly based largely in anger, which is an emotion.
Now YOUR "emotions" are getting in the way because you realize that I saw your little baited hook for what it was and refused to take it, and now you're "feelings" are hurt. No, I'm not interested in playing your silly game, because you're not good at it, and it would be a complete waste of my time.
My baited hook? Has your ability to go back and reread this thread been somehow hampered?
1. You asked me how I would have dealt with the situation.
https://www.houseofpolitics.com/forum/showpost.php?p=64761&postcount=19
2. I responded that I probably would have asked the restaurant staff to intervene.
https://www.houseofpolitics.com/forum/showpost.php?p=64766&postcount=22
3. You assumed that meant that I would get up and leave the family, which lead into you calling me stupid and a coward.
https://www.houseofpolitics.com/forum/showpost.php?p=64768&postcount=23
4. I asked if there were any waiters in the restaurant, since, obviously, if there were, that would mean that they could have been asked for assistance without having to leave the table.
https://www.houseofpolitics.com/forum/showpost.php?p=64770&postcount=25
5. And now, suddenly, I'm "playing games." You were totally okay with calling me stupid and a coward a couple of posts before, but not it's a "game" and now you're not interested.
https://www.houseofpolitics.com/forum/showpost.php?p=64772&postcount=27
6. I bring up the fact that your feelings toward this series of events seems to have shifted.
https://www.houseofpolitics.com/forum/showpost.php?p=64815&postcount=34
7. And now, apparently, you've "seen my little baited hook" and you've "refused to take it," when you in fact were the one who initiated this line of questioning and you were the one who failed to respond to the last actual point made.
Asking me how I would have dealt with the situation was your choice. Deal with it.
Aggressive? He was the one being aggressive when he refused to leave after I told him to take a hike, and you're just plain silly. I considered him to be a possible threat to my family, and I dealt with him accordingly. Now if you "feel" that it was inappropriate, that's your problem, not mine.
There's more than one way to solve a problem, Carpenter.
And yeah, he could very well have been a threat. If, say, when you got all up in his face and started yelling at him, he'd pulled out a gun or a knife on you, what would you have done then?
vyo, you're operating under the misguided impression that I give a damn about him, or anyone like him, I don't. I care about me and mine, everyone and everything comes after that, and I'm not the least bit interested in being "understanding" towards him, or anyone like him, or even solving his problems. If you want to run around trying to save the world, go right ahead, but I've been around the world, and believe me when I tell you, it doesn't want to be saved, it's just looking for easy marks like you to come along because it knows that you'll give 'em what they want, or if it comes to it, that they can TAKE what they want from you, because you're such a wuss that you won't even defend yourself or your own family. You remind me of those stupid Nuns in Honduras who were out there, spreading the word, "taking care" of the natives, and got raped and murdered by the "emotional" Sandanistas for their efforts because they were idiot-logues and wouldn't take an "aggressive" armed patrol with them to ensure their safety, because they were worried about how it might make someone else "feel". As far as I'm concerned, they asked for it, they got it, Toyota.
Sigh.
If you think I'm motivated by my massive, unconditional love for every single other human being on the planet, you'd be wrong. I don't much like people, to be honest. But I recognize that people are an unavoidable quantity of living in society, and the improvement of the "dregs" of society, so to speak, benefits everyone up the food chain.
Just think: if someone had stopped to help that man prior to that night, you might not have had to deal with him in the restaurant. You don't have to trouble yourself thinking about what he'd actually be doing - or even that, God forbid, you might have helped someone you didn't know. All you would have to think about was, "I protected my family and now that particular dangerous homeless guy won't bother people anymore," rather than just "I protected my family."
Then again, I suppose you wouldn't terribly mind being interrupted like that again and again and again. It was quite fun telling him off, wasn't it?
Now, I hope, for your sake, that some day you aren't confronted with someone like that, because if you are, chances are we'll be reading about you in the papers, with the title of VICTIM in front of your name. One thing about it though, if you are, and you survive, when you get out of the hospital, you'll be a NEOCONSERVATIVE, because, and I don't remember who said it, but neoconservatives are liberals who have been mugged.[/QUOTE]