Non-parental adults have no responsibility to be “good examples” or “role models” to others’ offspring. Some parents need to invest more time and energy in raising their own damn kids than trying to coerce other people to change their behavior in deference to those kids.
I can hardly believe this; I just now had to rise to the defense of Donald freaking Trump. I need to go bathe in holy water and carbon tetrachloride now.
No, you didn’t. You could acknowledge that the President is supposed to be a role model. You could just not say anything.
You chose to defend Trump. Over something really stupid.
Why on earth would I acknowledge something that stupid?? I don’t think he is “supposed to be a role model”. Nobody else is either; the whole notion is coercive and ridiculous and just serves as a rationalization for imposing your wants on other people while claiming a baseless superiority. Self-righteousness, self-deception and bossiness are ugly things, the very attar and essence of oppression. Little tin-can tyrants manques like yourself swill them down like a toxic cocktail every goddamn day.
As for what I could have done…well, you could have kept your worthless yap shut and your fingers off the keyboard. You might have considered the possibility that authoritarian moralistic postures mean jackshit to me, especially when issued by fools like you.
No, wait, that’s wrong. You’re incapable of doing anything of the sort, aren’t you?
Oh, razzberries to you, you big creep.
This is a warning, use the Pit next time you want to insult or call names, please.
Whoa. All I did was point out that you were not obligated to defend Trump. I hate that argument with a thousand suns. You are not obligated to defend anyone you don’t want to. I offered two examples of things you could have done instead.
It is not my intent to attack you. Though, I have to admit, being willing to take a Warning to insult me does make me less inclined to apologize. But I will at least say that I did not intend for you to be that hurt.
I just really hate the argument that someone “has” to defend someone they didn’t want to, or that other people “made” them have to do it. Similarly to how you seem to feel about the idea of “role models.”