# Because you have the technology does NOT make it ok to use it, asshole. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 13, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036 "2010-06-13T19:03:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/221 "2010-06-15T03:56:15Z")
Yeah, we all get it. We’re assholes for what we do to these people. Anyone got more funny pictures to share? ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/222 "2010-06-15T04:14:05Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > And I find it amazing that you believe your lack of reply to the central question is going unnoticed. > > I’ll be happy to respond to you when you actually respond to me, but you’ve made it very clear you have no answer so you will keep bobbing and weaving. > > Thanks for participating. Christ, because I wouldn’t answer your comletely inane question which equated laughing at someone to punching them in the face? Okay - I would not punch her in the face. Happy? I just refuse to accept the other part of that equation - namely that I should feel exactly the same way about laughing at her anonymously. This is very much a “When did you stop beating your wife” type question. I ask you again - since it’s okay for you to judge the guy who took the pic, is it also okay for you to light his house on fire? And okay, so you’ve been punched and mocked, and would rather be punched apparently. For someone so full of themselves you sure are sensitive. In any case, don’t expect other people to feel the same way - they’re not at all alike, and the comparison is stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/223 "2010-06-15T05:58:00Z")
> [@Meyer6](#): > > Christ, because I wouldn’t answer your comletely inane question which equated laughing at someone to punching them in the face? Okay - I would not punch her in the face. You’re cute, ya know it? Not slick, but cute. Thanks again! Be sure to let me know if you change your mind… ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/224 "2010-06-15T07:20:59Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > You’re cute, ya know it? > > Not slick, but cute. Well, one of us has to be. > [@](#): > > Thanks again! Be sure to let me know if you change your mind… Change my mind about what? Wanting to punch people in the face? Yeah, I’ll keep you updated on that. You keep me updated if you ever decide to actually form a cohesive arguement that doesn’t involve punching and rape and murder and hurricane Katrina, kay? Have fun with your outrage, you sure don’t seem to be in short supply. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/225 "2010-06-15T12:42:19Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > The belted look is . . . not good for you there Guinster. Reasonable men can disagree. > [@](#): > > A pic in a skimpy two-piece is probably the best way to go here. This may be the first time I’ve been in enthusiastic, unequivocal agreement with anything you’ve said. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/226 "2010-06-15T14:53:58Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > YES! YES YOU WILL! Since you’re not a doctor I’m not sure what they’re going to do to you so perhaps you should head underground until this all blows over. Shit! Shit! Shit! **I DON’T HAVE A BASEMENT!!!** > [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Now, if that photo had been snapped in the waiting room of an abortion provider, and posted on the internet on [lookatthebabykillers.com](http://lookatthebabykillers.com) instead of [lookatthefatties.com](http://lookatthefatties.com), would we still be having a debate about unlimited freedom of speech? 1.) Yes. 2.) The fact that she is (may be?) in a waiting room at a clinic has absolutely \*no bearing \*on the point of \*this \*photo. > [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > It’s a form of cyber-bullying Are you retarded? No it’s not. It’s completely anonymous, and the woman won’t ever even \*see \*the photo or any comments on it unless she frequents the type of site where shit like this gets posted. > [@Meyer6](#): > > Yes, compare this to rape, that makes you look more sane. Why don’t you try to figure out how to fit the Nazis in, then you’ll be golden. :rolleyes: You know who used to make fun of people for their fashion sense, like little caps and beards and curls by their ears? > [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > OK: [Pic](http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythology/AdonisLouvre.html) Someone else already beat me to the penis joke, god dammit. > [@Guinastasia](#): > > BTW, here’s [mine](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family/meforcbswed.jpg). My god, what size are you? I want to beat you up and steal that dress. > [@Stoid](#): > > He’s why I became a comedian for a few years. I note the past tense. You might as well have said, “I thought I was funny, but not enough people agreed with me. I failed horribly. My life is shame.” > [@](#): > > And for the record, I competed in a citywide competition in Los Angeles, for muscular dystrophy I think, and out of 110 entrants I placed 11th. You know who used to do huge shows? Gallagher Too. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/227 "2010-06-15T15:34:47Z")
No, I’m not retarded, although I don’t doubt that there have been times when you’ve had fun at the expense of those who are. Please persuade me otherwise: 1. All people, even obese people who wear tight t-shirts that say “chase me catch me fuck me,” are entitled to dignity. 2. Those who laugh at the less attractive and sophisticated do so out of a primitive urge to “ward off” their own self-inadequacies 3. Someday, Shot from Guns, you will be many years older and won’t be quite so impressed with yourself or so pleased to disparage strangers. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/228 "2010-06-15T15:39:53Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > 1. All people, even obese people who wear tight t-shirts that say “chase me catch me fuck me,” are entitled to dignity. > . Perfect word choice, entitled. Cause they sure aint working for it. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/229 "2010-06-15T16:25:50Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Quote: > Originally Posted by digs > Yeah, I won’t fall asleep where my so-called friends can take embarrassing pictures and instantly put them up on Facebook. > > Which is why I have little sympathy for these people who get their heads shaved and cigarette stumps placed in their ears, while sleeping. If you are dumb enough to drop your guard with friends like that around, you probably deserve everything you get. It was even dumber than that-- I was in a big comfy chair in a dark corner of a coffee joint. I thought I was safe, man! And a friend happened to stroll through… And since it was on Facebook, I’m still getting crap from people I work with. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/230 "2010-06-15T16:41:26Z")
While I agree that the situation in the OP is describing is horrible, I can’t help but laugh at **Stoid** ’s righteous indignation. Honey, didn’t you run a vintage porno site? I sincerely doubt you asked each and every one of those women you were posting all over for the world to see (and making money off of!) if it was ok to post photos of them in compromising sexual positions. I’m sure you’ll argue that they had originally signed off with the photographs, but I genuinely doubt some of those waaaaay old pictures have releases. Just sayin’. But hey, if you’re making a buck off of it, it’s not so deplorable, right? ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/231 "2010-06-15T16:56:32Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > I note the past tense. You might as well have said, “I thought I was funny, but not enough people agreed with me. I failed horribly. My life is shame.” After a lifetime of being good at making people I knew laugh, I wanted to see if I could deliberately make a room full of strangers laugh. I proved I could, repeatedly, and then I was done: I didn’t want to travel constantly, and I wasn’t prolific enough to keep from boring myself after I’d done a joke a few times. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/232 "2010-06-15T17:22:45Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > No, I’m not retarded, although I don’t doubt that there have been times when you’ve had fun at the expense of those who are. > > Please persuade me otherwise: > > 1. All people, even obese people who wear tight t-shirts that say “chase me catch me fuck me,” are entitled to dignity. Entitled? They don’t even HAVE any to begin with. Wearing such a shirt is as undignified as you can get, no matter WHAT kind of body you have! (I don’t care if you look like Salma Hayek, that kind of shirt just makes you look like a dumbass tool) **DiosaBellissima** – oh snap! ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/233 "2010-06-15T17:30:48Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > **DiosaBellissima** – oh snap! Shit just got real, son! (Sorry, I look for every opportunity to say that, as it’s my favorite saying ever) ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/234 "2010-06-15T17:35:10Z")
[Oh snap!](http://alansblog.co.uk/images/ohsnap.gif) Edit: Sorry, just realized that the Oh Snap! gif is demeaning the poor, dignified man that it features. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/235 "2010-06-15T17:38:51Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > [Oh snap!](http://alansblog.co.uk/images/ohsnap.gif) > > Edit: Sorry, just realized that the Oh Snap! gif is demeaning the poor, dignified man that it features. ☹ I also just lost my appetite. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/236 "2010-06-15T17:50:52Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Edit: Sorry, just realized that the Oh Snap! gif is demeaning the poor, dignified man that it features. ☹ Na, I’m 100% sure Santa Dracula wanted to be photographed like that. . . ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/237 "2010-06-15T17:55:11Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > [Oh snap!](http://alansblog.co.uk/images/ohsnap.gif) > > Edit: Sorry, just realized that the Oh Snap! gif is demeaning the poor, dignified man that it features. ☹ If Dr Who had used those in the “Blink” episodes it woulda been a shitload scarier than those wimpy angel statues. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/238 "2010-06-15T18:11:15Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > BTW, here’s [mine](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family/meforcbswed.jpg). (It’s over a year old, and my hair’s a big longer – I’m going to try a different color this time, too) Make fun of it all you want. > > -Guin, who still lives at home, and is still unemployed. 😃 (At least I can be original) > > And **Stoid** , next thing you’ll be telling us that we shouldn’t do “Best and Worst Dressed” lists for celebrities. (I’m guessing she WILL say that) I can see your nipples ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/239 "2010-06-15T18:14:33Z")
> [@Happy\_Poster](#): > > I can see your nipples I wish. It’s just the way the top was made. ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036/240 "2010-06-15T18:23:27Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > While I agree that the situation in the OP is describing is horrible, I can’t help but laugh at **Stoid** ’s righteous indignation. Honey, didn’t you run a vintage porno site? I sincerely doubt you asked each and every one of those women you were posting all over for the world to see (and making money off of!) if it was ok to post photos of them in compromising sexual positions. I’m sure you’ll argue that they had originally signed off with the photographs, but I genuinely doubt some of those waaaaay old pictures have releases. Just sayin’. But hey, if you’re making a buck off of it, it’s not so deplorable, right? Ha! Excellent point! But it’s all okay because they’re not fat right? > [@Stoid](#): > > After a lifetime of being good at making people I knew laugh, I wanted to see if I could deliberately make a room full of strangers laugh. I proved I could, repeatedly, and then I was done: I didn’t want to travel constantly, and I wasn’t prolific enough to keep from boring myself after I’d done a joke a few times. Yes, I’m quite sure agents were beating down your door to have you travel all over the world with your comedy routine. I’m sure you weren’t just one of the million dime-a-dozen crappy comedians we’ve all seen at local open-mike nights. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-you-have-the-technology-does-not-make-it-ok-to-use-it-asshole/543036.md?page=13)