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Originally Posted by Olaff
Nice try at ad hominem and assuming what I think. The post is not even about me. It's about how the floor deals with verbal altercations at the table. Regardless of whether I'm involved or not.
Not an ad hominem attack at all, and your follow up post proves my point.
My point is that people have a bias towards seeing their point of view, and not recognizing how much they contribute to confrontations and escalations. In several of your posts, you have been offensive or confrontational without likely meaning to be so. This suggests that when you perceive yourself, or the party you are sympathetic to, to be innocent victims, often those victims are contributing to the escalation, and you may not perceive it.
For example, when a floor person tells you that they have to rely on the dealer, you immediately make a broad and unsubstantiated attack on dealers to dismiss their statement. Hard to take you seriously as an innocent victim when your first response to a serious answer is to insult and dismiss.
We all suffer from confirmation bias. We believe that a situation is a certain way, see only the facts that support that, and get frustrated when neutral observers do not share our view. I have seen floors on multiple occasions pull aside an offender. I have also seen floors issue the table wide 'chill it' directive when it is obvious that no matter who 'started it', the whole table is getting chippy. My guess is that the cases you are talking about fall more into the latter than the former, but you have a subjective recollection of the events.