Do you feel sorry for them now?

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Let's say there's someone at school or your boss and they do nothing but irritate the shit out of you. They constantly give you a hard time. This person is nothing but an asshole/bitch/jerk to you. This person only gives you left-handed compliments etc. And sometimes you ask them for help for tiny things and they laugh right back in your face. Needless to say, this person has caused you to make your environment feel...uncomfortable and un-enjoyable.

Now one day this person that you despise runs in crying hysterically....you overhear that their closest family member has passed and now they feel like they can't go on with life anymore. They go on about how this person was very helpful and meant the world to them.

NOW......do you feel somewhat happy that this happened....or do you feel sorry and try to comfort this person??

Be honest

Thats too deep...if it was something else then I'd be happy 18
A bit of both 16
I honestly feel no way about this 16
I feel bad for them but I won't try to comfort them 35
I instantly feel bad for them and try to comfort them 15
I'm over the moon...thats what they get 20
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  • TyLee
    12 years ago

    I got bullied senior year by a guy. He got bullied/beat up so much that he needed to take it out on someone. He was horrible. He made fun of me, threw objects at my head, stalked me and harassed me... And I'm a girl. If something like that happened to him (at that time) I can honestly say that I would be happy only because he would have been so sad and preoccupied that he would be more inclined to leave me alone. I also agree with whoever said karma.

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  • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress
    12 years ago

    "I instantly feel bad for them and try to comfort them"

    Just because they're jerks doesn't mean they deserved having a family member die.

    More importantly, be the better person.

    Give them kindness when they're in pain. Not only will it be good but.... it may wake them up in how they act. More than likely they won't go back to being cruel to you when they realize you were so kind when they were hurting.

    So instead of being a jerk and making things worse... you could end up creating a friendship.

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    I'd say "sorry to hear that" and mean it, because it sucks that the person died, but I couldn't care less about how this jerk feels about it.

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  • severelydepressed:)
    12 years ago

    It would make my day a lot better to see someone who is an asshole to me suffer :)

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  • CrashMan
    12 years ago

    Wouldn't give a shit how they felt, and wouldn't feel bad about it.

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  • 4392Moron
    12 years ago

    Even if the person was a total J.A. to you in the past, it is normal to want to help him or her in their horrible time of need. You should over look the crap that they pulled on you in the past and stop and think that they just have lost a dear relative and are confiding on you to be there and walk through it with him or her because they trust you. And I feel also that while working through this together you may also work through your previous differences and become close friends.

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    • bryson_willis
      12 years ago

      And a pony will... no no I can see that horrible person getting over their pain and going back to the usual bullying regime. In the movies that would work but in real life i'd place a 60/40 bet on things changing for the worse if not at all.

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      • 4392Moron
        12 years ago

        Hey with my previous statement, I know that it works because I did that with five foes who have now turned out to be great friends of mine and they are now living happy and very constructive lives.

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        • bryson_willis
          12 years ago

          Then I take what i said back.

          'foe' I don't know why I find that so funny...

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          • 4392Moron
            12 years ago

            No apologies needed. You were just stating your opinions like I was mine, but what I said did work. Foe is a Canadian Slang; {maybe slang in other languages too, meaning enemy}. My Grand-Pappy taught me that word when I was just a "Wee Little Mite."

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    Of course I'd feel bad but I wouldn't try to comfort them because I'd think I'm last person they'd want to console them.

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  • rebecamp
    12 years ago

    This poll tears me in two differant directions...Karma....and be the better person...

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  • tox
    12 years ago

    Fuck them, they won't find any support from me.

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  • pambambam
    12 years ago

    this is happening to me lately.usually there is a coworker trying to get me in trouble intentionally and tries to have people not take me seriously. she is always instigating.
    i guess you gotta confront it. i dont know what to do with hostile people ,...

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  • maddog546
    12 years ago

    There once was this bitch at this job I had backin 1984/85 who desperately wanted to be my girlfriend but I did'nt want,nearly 10 yrs later she saw me on the street,Istill did'nt give a fuck she made my life a living hell if Iwere to see her today,I would still wish her DEAD!!!

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  • wickedwizardking
    12 years ago

    I would feel bad, but I'm not that good of a person to try and comfort them. I have this strange feeling that if the situation was reversed this jerk-ass wouldn't console you.

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    i would offer my condolences and keep my distance

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  • bananaface
    12 years ago

    I don't think I could ever feel happy about something like that, I'd feel too guilty. I just wouldn't care though, if it happened to a person like that.

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