Originally Posted by Bluescope:
“Sorry about this but I feel like I am going to sound like a teacher at school.
Reasons are defined as "the mental powers concerned with forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences:"
So yes your perception of an event is a part of the process we go through we forming a conclusion to define a reason.
IE the Reason he voted for Marc was because of his perception of the event lead to him forming a conclusion Marc was antagonising Brian.
This is not a black and white issue. It is not about the facts. The fact is Marc did splash Brian I hope you will accept that is correct.
Now Nick's perception of that event was it was antagonising Brian. Clearly Brian also though it was antagonising him. Marc did not however that does not make Marc view correct.
It was aimed at Brian so the only people who knows if Brian was antagonized by the events is Brian certainly not fing Marc.”
Oh ok, Marc splashed poor Brian while in the pool while playing...I hope Brian called the police on him, if that's antagonising then we are in big trouble as a society.
If that is Nick's "perception" then he is a fool, and biased against Marc.
Why didn't he nominate Danny for antagonising Marc when he was locking heads with him, that was far more antagonising than anything Marc did to Brian.
You can be patronising all you like about perceptions, but perceptions usually come with heavy bias as in this case.