When the Neighbors Don’t Like Your 10-Foot-Tall Transformer Statues

Re:When the Neighbors Don’t Like Your 10-Foot-Tall Transform... by matthew9219 on Saturday June 03, 2023 @05:09PM (#36180546)

How would it hurt you? The American Heritage Dictionary gives three definitions of hurt:

> 1. To cause physical damage or pain to (an individual or a body part); injure.

> 2. To experience injury or pain to or in (an individual or a body part).

> 3. To cause mental or emotional suffering to; distress.

Does looking at them cause you mental or emotional suffering?

What if I said that it caused me the same mental or emotional suffering anytime anybody wore a tshirt? Would you also say people should only wear tshirts inside?

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Re:When the Neighbors Don’t Like Your 10-Foot-Tall Transform... by archerx on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:40PM (#36188233)

7 Billion people wearing t-shirts vs 2 statues, not the same, sorry. There are laws for offensive shirts though so yes, specific t-shirts can cause emotional suffering and could land the person wearing it in a lot of trouble based on hate speech and obscenity laws.

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Re:When the Neighbors Don’t Like Your 10-Foot-Tall Transform... by matthew9219 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @04:31PM (#36189310)

Do you think these statues are hate speech or obscenity?

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