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Yes, if he wanted to avoid ridicule he should have been prepared. But that doesn't make it more appropriate to actually ridicule him. And it really doesn't make it appropriate to expand the ridicule around the globe.
If I'd been there I'd have laughed at him but I wouldn't be out at the door calling for people to come in and watch this guy make an ass of himself.
I'm bothered by the growing acceptance of the idea that because something can be recorded that it should be recorded, and that once something has been recorded it should be shared.
I was just in the restroom at work and there was another guy in there. I had the ability to record things. I should have put it on the internet, hell it is the guy's own damn fault for being excessively flatulent in a public restroom. Nothing funnier than good fart humor. That little sigh after the last big fart would have been worth an extra 10,000 YouTube hits.
Besides, there is something special about getting to be part of the small community watching the semi-private self-humiliation of a person. That is cheapened by YouTube. Just as the spread of easy access porn has distorted the sexual expectations of our young people, the spread of YouTube is going to distort the expectations as to humiliating behavior. It will be a race to the bottom. Just as 13-year-old girls have now seen and wish they had Jenna Jameson's boobs, 13-year-old girls will soon be striving to top the most devastating of home-tabed skateboard prat falls.
Give me another 10-15 minutes and I"ll really work myself into high dudgeon.
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