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Uniquemind
May 22nd, 2015, 12:10 AM
So I wanted to start an interesting discussion possibly a debate if we get some conflicting views, about what makes someone a jerk or an asshole versus someone who perhaps made a mistake or was reacting in a brash aggressive manner but also has good selfless deeds as well.


Is that person who cuts you or your parents on the road really deserving of a verbal cuss-out, or perhaps was the other person's life circumstances justified in them feeling hurried and thus them driving a bit aggressively which irked you the wrong way?


Are society's legal framework by de facto making individuals who work for a company an asshole person because corporate policy makes employees adopt certain behaviors that aren't always the right thing to do?

If you're a friend that's caught in the middle of an argument between two other friends, and you are asked to take a side, are you de facto an asshole to one person and not the other or vice-versa, or both if you fail to get involved and back up the concept of having a "friend's back"?


When you start fighting with others over "what's or that's mine!" type of scenarios in life, are you a de acto asshole or are you justifed? Lots of people who are called assholes use the defense they were justified in talking back or using force against someone else if, from a subjective point of view, they felt it was warranted.

Microcosm
May 22nd, 2015, 08:21 PM
"Ass hole" is a phrase representative of basically a jerk. Person 1 is represented as an "ass hole" if their views conflict with the views of Person 2 who is saying they are an ass hole.

Person 2 would probably call Person 1 an ass hole for a few reasons:

1. He is a literal anus(as in he is not a person in the first place, but rather one human body part).

2. Person 2 would like to make Person 1 feel shameful and so Person 2 does so by using a completely logically worthless statement that makes obvious assumptions.

3. Person 2 is a metaphorical "ass hole" himself and would like to justify or make that fact normal so that he doesn't feel like he stands out in a bad way by calling someone else an ass hole; his point in calling Person 1 an ass hole being that there are now two ass holes, which would now divide the negative attention between the two people. This, obviously, does not work and simply makes Person 2 look like more of an ass hole than he probably already was.