zorq
Veteran Member
Insisting that the accusation was "bullshit" implies that she was intentionally lying. In order for me to accept that I would like a plausible motivation for her to indeed commit to bullshitting a stranger in this fashion.No. I believe she lost her phone, and phones being integral to many peoples's lives these days (and often containing sensitive info), she freaked out like many people would. What does that have to do with anything? (edit: I don't mean the initial joke. I mean why do I need to address some ulterior motive on her part? I don't assert there was one.)
First of all, things don't become simpler just because you choose to ignore the details. That is a pattern all to familiar to me when dealing with conservative logic. We are capable of holding more than two thoughts at the same time in our heads when considering a problem so why would we try to limit ourselves like this?One party was minding their own.
One party made a false and unfounded accusation.
Done.
One party was minding their own business, yes, absolutely. And he made it clear that he wanted to return to minding his own business repeatedly. But he refused to do one thing that would make that outcome almost certain.
One party made a false accusation, yes. But I still object to your insistence that it was unfounded. WE DON'T KNOW HER REASONS! Your insistence that reasons must be "damn good" to justify an accusation isn't an objective (or well defined) standard. And there are still scenarios in which she still could (wrongly) have "damn good" reason to suspect the kid has her phone. Here's one that is completely unlikely but entirely plausible: The kid is clumsy and drops his phone near or maybe even inside the woman's partially unattended and open purse/handbag. The woman turns and notices the boy retrieve the phone which has a passing resemblance to her own phone and then comes to the obvious conclusion that she just witnessed her phone being stolen before her very eyes.
Why are people here so adverse to helping out a confused stranger especially when it benefits YOU as well in an instant and tangible way?