Cortez wrote:Should be obvious, but whatever.
Fact is that the intention is irrelevant when the result is nad. The role to hell is paved with good intentions and all that.
It doesn't matter what Teddy intended, what matters that he was being incentive to Alchemy's feelings and only thinking of his and Chloe's problems. Forgetting that Alchemy is a person with feelings too.
It's why Teddy realizes he fucked up.
But again, how does that make intention irrelevant? It still mitigates things at the very least. Or do you not mean irrelevant to mean meaningless? Intentions have value, its why we have sayings like "its the thought that counts," why manslaughter is legally different from murder, etc.
Insensitive is just not a word I would ever use to describe Teddy. At worst he was being unintentionally insensitive, and for a good reason. Alchemy not taking this into account is what bothers me a lot more than what Teddy did.
And as another user noted, Alchemy is being selfish herself by only thinking about her own hurt feelings and not Teddy's or Chloe's.
lordoffiling wrote:Imagine there's a wasp on your head. You're unaware. You're sitting next to my friend, who is hyper allergic and could die if it stung her. So, desperate, trying to save my friend, I belt you over the head with a brick to kill the wasp.
For a short while, you're not going to care what my intentions were. All you're going to be able to think about is how much it hurts. After it quits hurting so bad you'll be able to think about it and realize I was acting in desperation and concern for my friend, but until then your attention will be full on the pain in your head.
Emotions work like that too. Teddy hurt her. He didn't mean to, but at the moment Alchemy can't see that. All she can think about is how hurt she is. Rational thought will come later when she calms down.
Which isn't really the same as intention being irrelevant, which was my main point. After all the fact that in your scenario the friend is trying to help and in effect does help means I will be judging the situation very differently than I would otherwise. Yes there would be brief anger/confusion, but when it comes to physical pain that is hard to avoid. And even if I am angry I'm not going to run off and refuse to talk to the offender.
So I still don't see how Teddy briefly pleading for her to find a way to transform into a boy to help someone she already agreed to help is at all hurtful, let alone as devastating as Alchemy has taken it. Its like I'm missing a bunch of scenes involving this issue with her that never were shown.