RE: Freedom is what you have when no one is forcing their will on you...
Assholes are as assholes do. Example is Finnian, can you argue on his behalf that he was not an asshole and has continued to be exemplary in that regard? Nobody Becomes or Is Made into an asshole, asshole is a LABEL that I and anyone can use freely, yet it's not going to mean shit if there is no substance behind that Label: If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's a duck, so it doesn't say anything about the Individual being labeled or their character, contrary to that it only speaks on MY-CHARACTER, and what I find to be asshole in deed, and if you disagree you can say why you don't think This Act speaks as to Their Character, which is fine, or you can try to chastise me and tell me that even if they are an asshole or act as an asshole, that doesn't "make" them assholes or that "it's not nice to call people assholes", or even start fomenting at the mouth with Ad Hominems! That's a Fallacy! I am of the firm position that if you seek to IRE people it's done simply in speaking and spreading the truth, it's quite a grueling endeavor: Truth, the love of it. Calling people assholes is akin to "I think you're acting in a very rude, intolerable manner" and if my opinion of you then offends you, it's frankly none of my god damn business to coddle your insecurities.
I have no idea what this reply is about.
"This" is a direct response to your Quip about "Assholes" if you didn't understand it's subject and wondered "why is he talking about assholes" or somehow missed how you opened up discussion on Assholes.
What you have with finnian is your problem. And I find it strange why you ask me to argue on his behalf.
I'm not gonna let myself be pulled in arguments you have with other people. Hope you understand.
Did I say it was my problem or that I was in an argument with him? Nope, Why ever do you find it strange that after your Quip about Assholes I responded Directly with what I think about assholes and what I think about your thought about assholes.
It's about the "argue on his behalf"
Clearly that's what it's about.
Assholes are as Assholes do. Example is Finnian,
and what followed was a rhetorical question, not "I want you to argue" or "argue on his behalf" but a conditional yes or no which didn't need any answer from you because if you sought to argue that our example wasn't an asshole then you'd obviously say no, otherwise it's only my Opinion about Assholes in regard to your unsolicited Opinion about assholes.
I'm not saying no, I say I don't know, I don't know finnian or you or anybody enough to say, they are assholes, same would go for the rethorical people in the oil field. People all have their reasons and that I don't agree with them doesn't make them asshole for me.
Obviously we have a inherent disagreement on semantic basis. I think Asshole are as Assholes do and I have no need to "know" them, or to grow up with them or be their friend and you think that All people have their reasons. I think if you sought to positively define what an asshole was (outside your bunghole) we would come to an agreement of who's an asshole and who isn't as this is apropos.