Post by Rasselas on Jun 15, 2015 14:35:09 GMT
Sounded like it was a suggestion of cutting Tony some slack.
Well, it's hard to articulate properly what's bothersome about it. I had to work through it myself in previous posts. It's not that I want to justify Anthony's actions, it's that I feel I'll find a much richer, deeper story if I also look into his motives. And you can't do that without empathizing, at least temporarily.
It's an uphill battle to even begin a discussion in this vein. The community instantly brands you the bad guy, the person who sides with an abuser. It's hard to separate the intertwined issues and knee-jerk reactions. At first you feel like you have to push through those knee-jerk reactions in order for the dialogue to even begin.
