Thread:TheDoctorX/@comment-26932251-20160616114652

A few years ago Breaking Bad was happening and quite frankly I was shocked when I would see the justifications that people would make for the actions of the main character.

I would see people make all kinds of absurd spins like, "I'm angry at how the son behaved in front of his father, Walter White killed family but it wasn't blood family" and you get to a certain point where you have to conclude, "the characters and story are fiction but the opinions and mindset aren't fiction. This is what these people really believe and this fiction has revealed that."

I honestly still don't really know where to go from there other than to not expect very much from most of my fellow humanity. You know, I saw "MasteroftheWaste's" comments, I didn't read the whole discussion between you two, but his "dead is dead" comment when referring to children did leave me feeling a bit cold.

At the same time, I feel you took a rather punitive approach to it, and regardless of right or wrong, but when people feel like they're being attacked then you're not gonna reach them, they're just going to dig in their heels. I mean, if I could offer a critique, I would have suggested that maybe you critique some of his opinions but then, you know this is fiction, there isn't a pressing urgency, just walk away from the discussion for a while and let what you said simmer. Come back to it in a day if it still feels important to you.

A patient approach like that might not seem necessary to someone like you who apparently values intellectual thoroughness and consequential immediacy but not everyone ticks that way and maybe all parties involved are better off if you take a patient approach and seek intellectual thoroughness elsewhere.

I hope you don't feel like I'm here to criticize you. I honestly intend my perspectives and opinions in the spirit of respect. 