Grown Ups Don't Shoot Laptops

[Summer Hathaway]

28. Amazingly enough

you decided to not only psychoanalyze a character you now say is fictional, you actually told us what he was thinking, what his motives were, what he was intending to project, the 'message' he was conveying, etc.

All this from a video clip made by someone you don't know, have never met, and now don't even believe to be a real person anyway.

You would be "remiss" if you didn't point out what a bad parenting model he is? Remiss in what way? Has the entire universe been waiting for you to weigh-in on this topic? Does the world look to you for the last word on whose parenting skills meet with your approval? I think not.

If your comment about "feeling the need to defend a fictional character" was directed at me, you have missed the mark by a long shot. I neither condemned nor defended
the man in this video - fictional or real.

What I did do was point out the incredible absurdity of anyone viewing a video clip of a total stranger and going on and on about knowing what that person was thinking, feeling, or any other number of things about them that you are in no position to know.

It is one thing to offer an opinion as to someone's words or actions, and to express whatever conclusions (rightly or wrongly) you might have drawn as a result.

It is quite another to be arrogantly insistent that you know he thinks this, you know he expects that, you know he said this in order to convey that, you know what goes on in the privacy of someone else's family based on a few minutes of a FaceBook video - all of this about someone you have now concluded is fictional anyway - which begs the question as to why you offered your free psycho-babble analysis in the first place.

As for your "bit of free psychoanalysis", I will take it to be worth exactly what I paid for it. Nothing.