The other night a friend of mine said something rather inappropriate to someone else over dinner. It was a bit out of left field, a bit vulgar, but all in all the term I would use to describe it is “inappropriate”.
I decided to confront this person privately and remind them that “Yo, you can’t just blurt crazy things like that out.” To which this person replied with the eight words that have protected acts of ignorance acts for so long.
“Well I don’t give a shit what people think!”
The problem with that statement, is that it doesn’t absolve you from being an asshole. Sure, if some one says “Well Jorge’s shirt is ugly.” Then I can rehtort with “Well I don’t give a shit about what they think.” But if I am in court charged with murder, and the judge asks me why I killed the guy, he won’t let me off the hook just because of my blatent disregard for people’s thoughts and feelings.
You see, not giving a shit is not some sort of blanket statement to justify whatever action you deemed appropriate. You can’t just offend someone and say you don’t give a shit about what they think, thats just not cool. Sure the person who keeps this in their armory of responses will argue that they go against the norm. Well, there’s being different and going against the norm, and there’s being an asshole.
Don’t be an asshole.
Consider this a The Jorge Zone public service announcement.
Is this about Jenn’s big b**bs comment?
Yes.