getting on your nerves

**handsome pete** · October 31, 2009, 04:42 AM

is deliberately getting on someone's nerves immoral ?

**Taiji** · October 31, 2009, 04:46 AM

Depends why. So in itself, no.

**Morkonan** · October 31, 2009, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by handsome pete

is deliberately getting on someone's nerves immoral ?

If you're talking about deliberately agitating someone then, yes, it could be. Why are you doing it? If you are doing it for a shared, jokingly fun moment then, maybe not. (Joking between each other, egging each other on, etc..)

But, if you are doing it to derive some sort of personal pleasure from causing another stress or discomfort then it would definitely be immoral, IMO.

**boboman420** · October 31, 2009, 04:01 PM

I hope not or I'll be burning in hell.

**♔Jean-Luc Picard♔** · October 31, 2009, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by boboman420

I hope not or I'll be burning in hell.

That pretty much sums it up in my case.

**Taiji** · October 31, 2009, 10:14 PM

If you are fighting someone, getting on their nerves can help you beat them.

Sometimes it's necessary to get on someone's nerves in order to do what you want to do.

Some people just aren't interesting because they don't get on my nerves.

I think 'get on my nerves' is quite vague... does flirting count?

**persianfan247** · October 31, 2009, 10:24 PM

It is if you get on mine.

**handsome pete** · November 01, 2009, 04:12 PM

it's just that, although i'll put someone in their place if i think they're trying to

with me, i've virtually never, deliberately tried to get on someone else's nerves and yet it seems to be quite common. to me it's so obviously hypocritical and yet i see it everywhere. atm in my life, no one gets on my nerves, but reflecting back over things i can see that at most stages of my life there has always been at least one person who did take it upon themselves to try and make my experience of life less enjoyable in petty ways. the thing i can't understand is why someone goes to church for four hours and then comes home and decides they want to try and annoy me. most of the people i know who behave like that to others seem to well up with self enjoyment and pride while they're doing it (something i've never been able to understand) even as they spend the rest of their life implying that they're somehow on the morale high ground.

with all the talk about behaving in an appropriate manner, negatively affecting someone else's chances of a good life in a subversive manner always seems to be the constant that no one even attempts to criticise. if you're powerful, if your clever and if you don't turn the other cheek it doesn't seem to be a problem. in fact sometimes the other person ends up being the one who always comes out looking foolish. but the moment you believe that turning the other cheek is good, it's like you reward people for being destructive and it even seems to encourage their behaviour more generally against everyone else.