# Why do hypotheticals that push people's comfort zones piss people off? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 4, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hypotheticals-that-push-peoples-comfort-zones-piss-people-off/813592 "2018-05-04T17:57:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 76
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hypotheticals-that-push-peoples-comfort-zones-piss-people-off/813592/76 "2018-05-07T01:39:02Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > And that’s just a cursory skim over threads he’s started in the past two years in which he wants to discuss stories he’s concocted which feature rape Yeah, on the basis of the evidence I’m going to fail to be worried about participating in the threads. One example (7) is about what would prompt you to note vote for a presidential candidate, and includes ‘if they were involved in covering up some actual rapes that were in the news’. Two of them explicitly involve no rape, one is about a consensual sex deal (5) and the other is about being voluntarily being tortured for money and explicitly has no sex, consensual or otherwise (6). In one (3) there’s a racist who accuses someone’s black in-laws of being racist. In another (2) the subject saved a woman from being raped in the distant past. So other than (1) and (4), your claim that the posts are about a story that featured rape is simply untrue. In the 2/7 examples, the point of the hypothetical is to look at a disturbing situation and examine how ‘you’ would react. While I find it perfectly reasonable to find those discussions disturbing, the implication that they must be for purient purposes just doesn’t fly for me. And just to make it clear for people who don’t want to click the links labeled ‘rape’ (most of which do not actually contain rape), this is an example of what people are referring to as "gratuitous rape or other pornographic scenes that denigrate women, and the people who get off on them.: > [@What accusation about your preferred pres. candidate, if proven, would cost him/her your vote?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accusation-about-your-preferred-pres-candidate-if-proven-would-cost-him-her-your-vote/745101/1): > > Now I _could_ say that, if she were proven to be an accomplice in Bill Cosby’s rapes, I’d become a Sanders supporter – but of course, not even Rush Limbaugh has accused her of that. But while I don’t care about her tolerating her husband’s infidelities, if it was proven to me that (a) Bill Clinton had actually committed a rape, and (b) Sec. Clinton had participated in a cover-up of that fact, I’d switch candidates. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hypotheticals-that-push-peoples-comfort-zones-piss-people-off/813592)._