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Wanglicious posted...

StealThisSheen posted...

Well, when you more or less are going "Well, of course people are doing X, so-and-so did Y," you're getting into justification territory.

It's like "Of course Adam got mad, Dan punched him in the face."

It's the tone.

that's an explanation, not a justification.
you don't have to agree with it, you aren't trying to justify it, you're explaining what happened and why it happened. using your example yeah, that explains why Adam got mad. and you can say he's justified by it or not depending on the circumstances (e.g., "but he told Dan to do it so he doesn't have much ground to stand on"). if you're confusing basic explanations with justification you're making a major mistake.

if you still get confused by that somehow then the least i'd expect is for you to keep reading what's actually written. which in this case has me literally saying that it's not justifying or approving anything so don't put words in my mouth.

which KP immediately did after.

Eh, I think we'll have to agree to disagree.

I think saying that something is an expected reaction is basically saying it's a justified reaction, because you shouldn't EXPECT unjustified reactions.

Like, that's where the "It's just an animal/baby/etc." thing comes in. You expect a dog to bite if you keep poking it in the face, and that's basically justifying it by saying "Well, yeah, it's just an animal."

Again, I'm NOT putting words in your mouth because I am NOT saying you are justifying it. You are not.

But the tone and language you used can certainly come off that way to people.
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