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Is it everyone's duty to correct the behavior of everyone else?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/13/opinions/billy-bush-bystander-henneman/index.html


Posted - October 14, 2016

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  • 2758
    This is an excellent article! I wonder how many victims of Bill and Hillary could have been spared if bystanders had intervened in their misogynistic tag teaming.
      October 14, 2016 2:48 PM MDT
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  • 691
    I found this unusual because it seemed the writer was saying others should interfere whenever a man is making a pass at a woman but that is just a normal part of society. Of course to interfere if a man is to drug and rape a woman is correct but to interfere only because a man has expressed interest in a woman is not unless it is harassing and he won't back off.  Should bystander intervene if a man takes a woman out furniture shopping? That does not seem sensible and is similar to women not being allowed out public without male escort. The writer must assume that women cannot make their own decisions about accepting or rejecting the advance of an interested man.
      October 14, 2016 2:57 PM MDT
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  • 2758
    Exactly...but then the professional pantywaists won't be happy until we're all walking around daring to look at much less engage one another in any form of unapproved contact.  This is liberalism--that special brand of forced dependency--coming to full flower.  Women, African Americans, gays, etc. can't take care of themselves without the assistance of the 'village.'
      October 14, 2016 3:01 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Of course.  It's called SOCIETY.


    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at October 14, 2016 3:03 PM MDT
      October 14, 2016 3:01 PM MDT
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  • 2758
    Right!  Hillary Clinton would be the clear choice/winner in this election had some bystanding member of 'society' intervened in her and her husband's woman-hating rope-a-dope 20+ years ago. This post was edited by Transquesta at October 14, 2016 8:39 PM MDT
      October 14, 2016 3:03 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    oh GOOD FOR YOU, you managed to bash Hillary Clinton without anyone even bringing up Donald Trump. 

    My message to you? 

    shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
    REALLY.
      October 14, 2016 3:09 PM MDT
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  • 2758
    The liberal penchant for unapologetic hypocrisy is nothing short of stunning!
      October 14, 2016 3:12 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Why tell me?  What care I?   Tell it to ITpro or someone who wants to give you some boring impassioned argument pro or con. 


    WRONG PERSON. This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at October 15, 2016 1:04 AM MDT
      October 14, 2016 3:15 PM MDT
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  • 691
    The link is an article about donald trump and how billy bush should have immediately disapproved when donald trump said he wanted to sleep with a woman.
      October 14, 2016 4:43 PM MDT
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  • 34309
    One correction though.  This type of stuff has been going on for much longer than 20 yrs.  It is more like 35+yrs.
      October 14, 2016 3:44 PM MDT
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  • 17602
    No
      October 14, 2016 5:50 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    NOPE
      October 14, 2016 6:25 PM MDT
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  • Nope. All it does is foster resentment. Even if that person was a little bit nicer after the supposed "intervention" chances are they will still resent the person and it may even backfire in very extreme cases. It may also backfire because supposed "intervention" could also turn into group bullying.

    I don't really like people anyways being for the fact that (just as a small example of the human race) in India there is still very much a caste system among the poor (someone committed suicide because of it just about a year ago I think) and tend to think that people in general think that they are better than the next person EVEN if they are in the same poor/rich grouping... and would rather have a few close friends than 100s but forcing people to accept others and/or policing behavior is actually going to do the opposite.

    I'm not proposing a solution but I did give my opinion.
      October 14, 2016 8:54 PM MDT
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