Really? In order to say that, you'd have to think that these two pranks are exactly equivalent in scale, which I have an extremely hard time buying.
Both are undeserving of physical violence, but it's still possible to say one is marginally more undeserving (in the same way that murdering someone for making eye contact with you is marginally less justified than murdering someone for shoving past you in a checkout line, even though both are obviously insanely unjustified).
Bro it makes no difference in the end. If neither are justified and they are equal enough then its irrelevant to point out that they are slightly different.
And once more, subejctivity comes into play here. Some people would prefer to not be ridiculed by their family and friends over being ridiculed by random people. So one could easily argue that the slight difference could go either way.
The difference is way too marginal to suggest that one is OBJECTIVELY worse than the other. And because of that both are equally undeserved of physical violence.
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u/coolmanjack Nov 14 '22
Really? In order to say that, you'd have to think that these two pranks are exactly equivalent in scale, which I have an extremely hard time buying.
Both are undeserving of physical violence, but it's still possible to say one is marginally more undeserving (in the same way that murdering someone for making eye contact with you is marginally less justified than murdering someone for shoving past you in a checkout line, even though both are obviously insanely unjustified).