RE: @thejohalfiles, why is this conman and harasser still being supported?
i personally do not know bens objectives. what i do know for a fact is that this had nothing to do with myself, adam, or anyone else currently on the team. my best answers to your questions would be a guess at best.
but i don't assume that ben had ill intent. ben thought that his communication was going to remain private... with someone he thought that he could trust. if he wanted to be evil, he would have no reason to soften his words.
kafka has a long history of trolling. it's what he does. the conversation between ben and kafka's cyber terrorist has been so twisted, guessed at, and made into fact that even i get confused at times.
however, at the end of the day... when i read carefully and without bias through kafka's evidence... i see ben having all the chances to ask for harm, but never asking.
You're right. I don't see that anywhere either. However, the sentence: 'He lives in Japan, so there's no other way to reach him', could be understood as: 'If he lived closer, we could try something else.' To be honest, I think it's that one sentence that makes it all a bit creepy to me. If I read this about me, I wouldn't feel very comfortable either...
As for the trolling... First of all, I don't read all of kafka's comments or replies to someone, so I can't say with certainty if that's the case. What I do know, is that he is a smart man who wants answers. He questions Adam's motives and he has every right to do so. If Adam were an actor, no one would care, but he's not. He wants to be in a very serious role and with that, he will have to answer very serious questions. And if people ask these questions, and there is no proper answer in reply, I would get annoyed too and become more assertive than before. It is human nature to want to know more, and if this is not satisfied, some people just don't take no for an answer (in this case, no discussion). There's a huge difference between wanting answers to serious questions and trolling.
I have been here on Steemit since June 2017 and Kafka was one of the first people I followed, because what he does and writes caught my interest and like I said: I think he is one of the most genuine people here. However, I have never seen him get this passionate about a discussion with someone as he is now, so I figure this must be with a very good reason.
i get where you're coming from. i do.
i do think that what ben was talking about is a difficult thing to discuss because those were private communications... we don't know intent. i could go through your text messages and find something that out of context could look nefarious just as you could to me. that's the problem with publicizing peoples private communication and then guessing at the intent.
finally... i do hope that you only embolden your criticism and skepticism. i work on the campaign. i am still skeptical to adam. i am critical of adam. and that's a good thing and how all intelligent people operate. so i'm glad that you are critical and skeptical. i'm glad that you are asking questions and not jumping on bandwagons. continue seeking truth always. unfortunately, i myself don't have all the answers that you wish that i did. but never stop looking if you're passionate about knowing.