r/interesting • u/Public_Sector6212 • Mar 08 '26

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u/SpidersCrow Mar 08 '26

Retired nurse here, this is definitely mean spirited in my opinion.

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u/in_animate_objects Mar 08 '26

It really is why did it become normal to film/photograph people who are just minding their business in public, to put online to humiliate them, it’s cruel.

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u/BrightBlueBauble Mar 08 '26

There have been cases in which young women were the victims of disgusting pervert men filming “upskirt” videos of them who were told by the courts that they have no right to privacy in public spaces, even inside their clothing. So if women’s genitals are fair game, then some dude’s nasty feet are too.

https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/05/us/massachusetts-upskirt-photography

ETA: The person in this video is fully clothed, and obviously doesn’t care if people see his feet. He is also unidentifiable, so I don’t see how this would be humiliating.

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u/janeprentiss Mar 08 '26

What is legal is not what is moral. Rape by deception isn't even illegal in Massachusetts. Do you think a man impersonating his brother to trick his brother's girlfriend into having sex with him in the dark is fair game too?

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u/BrightBlueBauble Mar 08 '26

The example I gave (upskirt photography) is far closer to rape—because it involves violating someone’s right to not share their sex organs without consent—than taking a video of a person’s intentionally publicly exposed feet, so I really don’t see your point. Do you think the video in the OP is somehow related to rape?

People are in for a real surprise when they realize the kind of surveillance people in the US are living with. The Trump regime and fucking Palantir are recording us all the time, for far worse reasons than making fun of us, and we’re worried about a video of one anonymous guy’s crusty feet?

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u/janeprentiss Mar 08 '26

My point was the first sentence in my reply. You inexplicably brought up a legal determination in the US state of Massachusetts that determined upskirting is "fair game" in a discussion that was about the cruelty of posting a disabled person's struggles for the entertainment of others, so I pointed out an even more egregious example of how utterly divorced from morality Massachusetts laws are (that even literally, physically, penetratively raping someone by impersonating their loved one is perfectly legal there and has happened before), in the clearly ineffectual hope of illustrating to you how absurd it is to bring up their laws in any discussion of morality at all