Called the cops on a couple of god botherers today

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107. Come on--that's an obvious red herring

Find me the post anywhere on DU in which I wrote that there is anything wrong with kindness, tolerance or understanding. The current discussion doesn't qualify, of course.

However, I have many times, in many discussions, pointed out that the victim of an attack is under no obligation to offer empathy, compassion, or understanding for their attacker during the attack.

While the current situation, with solicitors willfully violating local ordinance, is hardly an attack, a similar point remains: while they are willfully violating local ordinance to the disadvantage of the homeowner, the homeowner is under no obligation to accommodate them.

Further, having been subjected to this form of solicitation many times in my life, I can state with confidence that the solicitors are cynically abusing people's tolerance expressly for the purpose of slinging their sales pitch. Perhaps not this particular pair of solicitors, but it's absolutely part of the M.O. of that type of person.


For some reason you are going to ridiculous lengths to accommodate the solicitors who violate local ordinance while placing blame solely on the homeowner who is acting in accordance with that ordinance. Why?