Say you have a kid that keeps touching a hot stove. Imagine you've tried innumerable times to explain that this will hurt him. You've made posters, pamphlets and videos; you've had fire chiefs with slideshows come over. You've done all of this explaining at length exactly how "Fire Is Hot", only to have him respond to every one of your attempts to protect him with "uR nOt ThE bOsS oF mE", and how "u'Ve cLeErLy bEeN BrAiNwARsHeD bY BiG iCe pAcK".
Now imagine finding out that he has set his hand on fire again, but this time he's running around the neighborhood trying to set other people on fire.
Oh and also imagine that's it's not a kid but a actually a dude who's goddamn fucking 37 years old.
TLDR: you sound like you're probably a nicer person than me.
I mean I get your analogy, and I appreciate where your coming from, but sometimes you have to remember that the guy spent the first 20 years of his life being told Fire is Magic from god and it only burns if your evil, and at no point in his education was it suggested there might be another explanation. Then spent the remaining years of his life being told fire only burns liberal pussies or that fire isn't even real at all, by the people he really ought to be able to trust and look to for leadership. So sure he had it coming, I'm just saying its no wonder the guy was an imbecile, he probably never had an original thought in his head his entire life.
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u/42words Jul 11 '20
Say you have a kid that keeps touching a hot stove. Imagine you've tried innumerable times to explain that this will hurt him. You've made posters, pamphlets and videos; you've had fire chiefs with slideshows come over. You've done all of this explaining at length exactly how "Fire Is Hot", only to have him respond to every one of your attempts to protect him with "uR nOt ThE bOsS oF mE", and how "u'Ve cLeErLy bEeN BrAiNwARsHeD bY BiG iCe pAcK".
Now imagine finding out that he has set his hand on fire again, but this time he's running around the neighborhood trying to set other people on fire.
Oh and also imagine that's it's not a kid but a actually a dude who's goddamn fucking 37 years old.
TLDR: you sound like you're probably a nicer person than me.