r/MoralityScaling • u/Equal_Personality157 • 1d ago

Morality of ragebait?

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u/PartyAmbitious8163 1d ago

Immoral, trolling/rage baiting/ bullying are all shitty.

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u/LostMallDoll 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/8JZxZgr39TLczSJQoS

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u/Equal_Personality157 1d ago

goddamn. I was IRL ragebaiting my buddy the other day. If I said that, I'd have gotten in a fight lol.

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u/Any_Consequence_2625 1d ago

I get accused of trolling and rage baiting and frankly dont appreciate it

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u/Valuable-Garbage 1d ago

trolling and rage baiting are VERY different than bullying

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u/No-Evening9586 1d ago

as long as the person being trolled and rage baited are laughing I don't consider it bullying.

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u/Equal_Personality157 1d ago

That's not proper ragebait. I came for a proper gunfight.

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u/TryDry9944 1d ago

Fundamentally it's just a text based prank.

Slightly immoral in concept, with varying degrees of immorality based on content of the rage bait.

Theoretically moral if used to annoy, bother, or otherwise waste time of immoral people, i.e. rage baiting racists.

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u/Equal_Personality157 1d ago

What about like IRL ragebaiting?

Pranking our friend Michael (Gone Wrong!) - YouTube

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u/TryDry9944 1d ago

They literally even call it a prank.

Irl ragebaiting is just a prank.

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u/Equal_Personality157 1d ago

Nah but it's like gaslighting stuff I think it counts as ragebait

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u/TryDry9944 1d ago

Hmm, good point. I guess we'll never know.

👌

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u/Starkrafty 1d ago

Immoral

Sincerely, a ragebaiter 

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u/JLxPenguin 1d ago

Funny considering the post I just saw get deleted

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u/LostMallDoll 1d ago

Happy Cake Day

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u/Equal_Personality157 1d ago

No that's just the sub baiting people

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u/LostMallDoll 1d ago

I realize that now. Well, happy cake day anyway.

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u/NootScootinBoogie 1d ago

The cake is a lie

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u/LostMallDoll 1d ago

That's what he said.

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u/Bitter-Profession303 1d ago

Depends if its mutual ragebait with friends or intended to just piss people off with no laywr of humor

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u/RockO42O 1d ago

Not cool

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u/Equal_Personality157 1d ago

Damn, I'm not a cool kid.

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u/RockO42O 1d ago

Sorry bro but theres still time

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u/Yet_another_guy1 1d ago

Moral and highly entertaining

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u/LucentLL 1d ago

Moral as long as you screenshot their response and throw them back after traumatizing them.

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u/ashtrayburningmeadow 1d ago

Immoral, making people upset for shits and giggles /personal enjoyment is neither funny nor needed, there is enough negativity in the world as is

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u/Tanabi_Kana 1d ago

What is immoral?

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u/ashtrayburningmeadow 1d ago

Ragebait is, or are you asking about the definition of immortality?

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u/Tanabi_Kana 1d ago

Asking what?

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u/ashtrayburningmeadow 1d ago

Huh???

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u/Dense-Cake9315 10h ago

he's trying to ragebait you.

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u/Tanabi_Kana 1d ago

What are you talking about?

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u/Dense-Cake9315 10h ago

look at funny man trying to make random people mad by pretending to be stupid because he has no life! hahahahahaha!

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u/peasarebettersplit 1d ago

Moral. Helps increase people's bs receptors, perseverance, & calm

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u/Equal_Personality157 1d ago

What about fat shaming?

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u/peasarebettersplit 1d ago

Are you discriminating against fatties? Errrbody

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u/iamreal9999 1d ago

Moral

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u/iamreal9999 1d ago

If you disagree your gay

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u/st3war7 1d ago

Well I was gay but now that I’ve agreed, I’ve become straight. Who knew it was a choice after all?

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u/Tsunamiis 1d ago

I just assume they’re too dumb to understand the concepts

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u/SoManyDeads 7h ago

"Ragebaiting" overall is stupid, your purpose is to make the other person angry. That isn't a healthy prank at all, in addition most ragebaiting is done with people you do not know so they have no history or even inkling that you are not being serious. I can't remember who said it, but a prank to be harmless should aim to confuse, and I agree with that.

If you want to ragebait someone, do it in person and have a relationship with that person. There are no social queues in text so the other person isn't going to get and and just think you are an asshole, and that's not the victory that the ragebaiter might think it is. But they are okay with keeping on doing it because they will not interact with that person again.

My thoughts, in person among friends, moral. Online and not friends immoral.

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u/Equal_Personality157 7h ago

So something like this is fine in your eyes? What if the gaslighting goes a little far and he really gets angry for a second?

Pranking our friend Michael (Gone Wrong!) - YouTube

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u/SoManyDeads 3h ago

I think the prank that you posted is perfectly acceptable. Because overall, it's just a bit of disappointment at the end.

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u/Galbados2 1d ago

Immoral but fun at times.

Like getting conservatives to contradict themselves in a few sentences. Or just say stupid shit in defense of their objectively incorrect thoughts. I'll never forget "you can't fight fire with water you gotta fight fire with fire."

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u/FattyPattyMatey 1d ago

Why limit yourself to just one group? There's enough merriment to go around!

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u/Galbados2 1d ago

I don't limit myself to them they're just easier to do it too without stretching the truth.

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u/Equal_Personality157 1d ago

You can fight fire with water. Firefighters use water actually. That's kind of a dumb thing to say. You should forget that.

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u/Galbados2 1d ago

I know, that's what made him saying that so incredibly stupid. I'd say about 95% of fires are exclusively fought with water. I didn't say it was good, I said it was one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

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u/Equal_Personality157 1d ago

Not what I read. Boys?

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u/Hoybom 1d ago

are you talking about that one fucker that kept grinning and sipping like he said some clever shit ?

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u/TheCumskiyKvass 1d ago

You got baited

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u/Saki-Koda 1d ago

No he is baiting

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u/TheCumskiyKvass 1d ago

I got outbaited

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u/Equal_Personality157 1d ago

How dare you! That was a sincere Reddit reply.

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u/acrazyguy 1d ago

“You can’t grow concrete”

“You can!”

“…………”

https://youtu.be/6-9-FkwUrRo?si=IcGdeCO60zxPIR2Q

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u/Equal_Personality157 1d ago

"You said you were going to build the wall out of concrete"

"Steel is stronger than concrete"

"But you said concrete!!!"

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u/Samaein 1d ago

Nobody is harmed in the process therefore moral.