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Re:Patreon loses lawsuit with Owen Benjamin fans by toomuchtodo on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:52PM (#24010599)
It’s your duty as a human being to be a well-adjusted person emotionally and to develop emotional fortitude along your life journey. You have no right to not have your feelings hurt.
Re:Patreon loses lawsuit with Owen Benjamin fans by manicdee on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:33PM (#24014437)
Cool story bro.

Meanwhile in the real world we are not all born psychopaths with the privilege of only working with people like us who like us. In addition we live in the same world where “only following orders” is still a thing: so one person’s public suggestion that you are not a nice person is someone else’s call to action to punish you for being you. Accusations that a woman used sexual favours to get better reviews for a computer game led to complete strangers turning up on her doorstep threatening violence.

Words aren’t just words. What people are scared of isn’t just the words but the retribution they have learned follows those words as surely as night follows day.

Re:Patreon loses lawsuit with Owen Benjamin fans by UncleMeat on Friday July 31, 2020 @10:18PM (#24016789)
It’s not people’s feelings I’m worried about. Blood libel led directly to the murder of a ton of Jewish people. Neonazi movements actively promote mass violence against Jewish people. There have been mass shootings at synagogues in very recent memory.

“Just be an emotionless robot” misunderstands the complaint completely.

Re:Patreon loses lawsuit with Owen Benjamin fans by ceejayoz on Friday July 31, 2020 @01:08PM (#24010806)
In the real world, we encounter folks who aren't "well-adjusted". Society winds up having to decide how to deal with them.