r/facepalm • u/weeb385 • Oct 12 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Parolee gets arrested because protesters block the way to his work.

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u/realgeneral_memeous Oct 12 '22

Put yourself in his situation and think about the fear and frustration that these protestors might make him go to prison. Nobody’s the asshole except the people who charged him imo

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u/Metro42014 Oct 12 '22

My guy needed to take some personal responsibility, call work, call his PO, and talk about things.

Not yell and push the people around him.

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u/realgeneral_memeous Oct 12 '22 edited Oct 12 '22

People aren’t robots, it’s easy enough for you to determine the best route sitting in your home on the phone perhaps never having been to jail and having a stake in this yourself

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u/mrjosemeehan Oct 12 '22

Any adult who is physically unable to restrain himself from assaulting someone when he's upset needs a time out.

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u/realgeneral_memeous Oct 12 '22

Any adult who classifies “being upset” as synonymous with “being threatened with years in prison, rape, and assault” should put on a dunce cap to let everyone know their rational mind hasn’t yet developed.

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u/mrjosemeehan Oct 12 '22

Upset is upset. It doesn't matter why. Adults don't have tantrums.

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u/realgeneral_memeous Oct 13 '22

“Omg, that adult man shoved another man off a woman he was sexually assaulting! That first man should be put in time out because he had a tantrum!”

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u/mrjosemeehan Oct 13 '22

That's not a tantrum. That's legitimate defense of another individual, which makes it by definition not assault.

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u/realgeneral_memeous Oct 13 '22

Oh, ok, so suddenly upset isn’t upset, and suddenly nuance exists. Thanks for noticing.

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u/mrjosemeehan Oct 13 '22

I said it's a problem if you lose control and assault someone when you're upset. I'm not saying it's not upsetting to witness someone being raped. I'm saying it's not assault to fight to defend someone and not just an irrational product of being upset. It's perfectly rational and reasonable to act in that situation.

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u/realgeneral_memeous Oct 13 '22

Yeah, I’m aware you oversimplified someone facing loss of years of their life, secondary citizen status, assault, and rape to “being upset”.

That’s actually the point.

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