This is not the question. Public figures remain free to decline to engage with any one of their fans or their critics tho they might get criticism if they never engage with any of them. Stalking does not become OK if they decline to do this. https://twitter.com/gregblives/status/971136459674501120 …
Of course. But if you think there is merit to this behaviour when it's not caused by mental illness, I don't know what to tell you. To me, it's clear it's wrong and the two explanations are deliberate malice or mental illness.
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I don't remember saying that there's merit to the behavior. I'm curious as to how you think I did. I said that saying "X has mental illness" can be a tactic to stop taking anything that the person says seriously. That's a different claim than what you seem to attribute to me.
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I'm saying that if we agree the behaviour is bad, suspecting mental illness as the cause is mitigating rather than a tactic to stop people considering whether the behaviour has merit. You said ideas but it doesn't matter whether you agree with ideas or not. Its the behaviour.
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1/2 And, again, I don't remember at any point endorsing the behavior. Lot's of people engage in bad behavior, sometimes they don't realize/haven't thought about what ways this might be bad, later - in moments of reflection - the do realize, and they change their behavior.
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Nor am I claiming you did. I hope that will happen. We all hoped he'd lose interest eventually but it's been escalating for months. I'm going to leave it here tho. I hope it's illness and that he recovers from it with the support of his friends who are telling him this.
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I can always count on Helen to help restore my faith in human interaction, when it comes to mostly productive convos around points of disagreement.
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I think it’s possible he really hasn’t had time to examine his actions objectively. Maybe I’m being either too naive or too charitable.
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It's been since the conceptual penis last may. It's just escalating.
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I get that. I actually liked his criticism vs your defense (in helping sort my thoughts about it) and I concede that his apparent obsessiveness isnt a good sign.
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This is the thing. People can take any position at all on the hoax. This isn't the problem. I don't expect everyone to agree with me. But I wouldn't hound people who don't. This is not right.
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100% agree.
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