Discussion Recording someone's reaction when beginning a potential minefield of a topic

[mikeymikec]

https://imgur.com/a/PqZIyBv

If I can try to steer this discussion a little bit, let's take it as a given that there are going to be opinions about "people uploading things to the Internet for likes" is (IMO) often a very messed-up thing to do, that's not really the focus of my point/question. While also IMO it's also a reasonable-ish argument to ask, "why else would anyone record this?", I suggest we ignore that at least for now.

I saw this on imgur. While I fully support the idea of accepting people for who they are (e.g. being open-minded enough to accept that two mutually consenting adults may want to have a homosexual relationship), I can't help but think that it's wrong to record someone's reaction to such a question, but I'm having trouble coming up with an obvious set of reasoning as to why and I'm interested in hearing peoples' thoughts on the topic.

I suppose one aspect is the possibility that say the person being asked is still kind of on-the-fence on the topic in question, perhaps leaning towards the phobic side, but has the potential to change their mind when presented with a more reasonable or say a closer-to-home example of the topic and this is one of those "first impression" moments that are extremely useful to get right first time, I can't help but think that recording it (assuming that the subject of the recording is aware at the time of it being recorded) has the potential to put someone on edge more than they need to be for a potentially very emotionally loaded topic like this. I think recording things like this also can maybe 'increase the permanence' so to speak of a situation like this going wrong and staying wrong. People make mistakes and recording such an incident might make them dig their heels in more, and sometimes to make things easier for a loved one to admit a mistake then we don't try to force them into explicitly admitting error; if they've shown with subsequent actions that they've adjusted their viewpoint and implicitly conceded their original argument, then just let it slide (unless they were a real twat about it in the first place and did some shit that they really should be apologising for).

I suppose a much shorter explanation is "people act differently when recorded", but it doesn't carry across the same nuance.

 

[lxskllr]

Wrong question. You don't post private conversations without the consent of both parties. If both parties consent, then whatever... There's no limit to stupid frivolous videos online. That's why I don't watch much video.

If it's on the street with an obvious camera, then there's no expectation of privacy, and there's no mandate to answer people's stupid leading questions. Just walk away. Nothing to film.