If someone insults me even though I have not deserved it in any way, is it ethical to insult them back?
Yes, but you need to make sure the school yard monitor isn’t in earshot.
I think you’re making a mountain out of a molehill. It’s not about whether or not it’s ethical. It’s about whether or not you want to feed the fire or just walk away and let it die out.
Define ‘insult’, ‘deserve’, and ‘ethical’.
That would depend on your ethos. In a traditional Christian culture, the commandment to “turn the other cheek” would preempt such a response. YMMV.
I’d assume the insult would be asking when someone last got laid.
Isn’t making that assumption insulting in and of itself!?
I don’t think so. “Be the bigger person”, and all that.
Maybe. Anyone who insults me gives me negative psychological energy. Giving back that energy is important to preserve my health.
Woo!
Yeah, well the thing is, it wasn’t an insult. It was a valid question and I think your own insecurities made you insulted by it. Or it might be a man thing. If someone asked me when I got laid, I’d answer and shrug it off. No big deal. It doesn’t speak anything about me as a person.
If someone asked that at work they would be fired.
Jesus Fucking Christ. :rolleyes:
Because of sexual harassment laws in the work place. Not because it’s an insult. And this isn’t work. Like I said before, you’re making a mountain out of a molehill. If you really felt it was none of his business to ask that, then it would have been better to say so and explain that you didn’t feel it contributed to the conversation at hand. Not to take it as an insult and throw one back at him.
Anyone have a link to what this is all about?
So you subscribe to the “I’m rubber, you’re glue” style of medical practice?
I think your reasoning is San Andreas Faulty.
No. I just do not like people who are mean to me for no fault.
What work? I thought you lived off your parents.