First, I didn't see him as belligerently as you are seeing him.
Second, the vendor is giving out something comestible, and we're living in an era of particularly vile pranksters, and I've got a fairly long memory of stuff being adulterated in extremely hard-to-detect ways, and I can see this guy as performing an actual public service if this isn't all a marketing stunt.
Don't take candy from strangers. Train a dog not to eat anything it finds lying around. This is still part of the basic survival hiking kit.
How does that alter the validity of the questions?
Who founded the company? Where'd they get the start-up money? The securing of advertising contracts comes after, wouldn't it? If they were lined up from the get-go, what are those relationships? What's being advertised? I think these are interesting questions I would want to ask.
Tone and style have impact on how someone is understood in any given conversation. If someone is rude in their manner, no matter how pointed their questions are, they don't honestly deserve a response. And if they continue to behave rudely, they can get punched in the mouth. That's why we have manners, a polite society is a civil society.
First, I didn't see him as belligerently as you are seeing him.
Second, the vendor is giving out something comestible, and we're living in an era of particularly vile pranksters, and I've got a fairly long memory of stuff being adulterated in extremely hard-to-detect ways, and I can see this guy as performing an actual public service if this isn't all a marketing stunt.
Don't take candy from strangers. Train a dog not to eat anything it finds lying around. This is still part of the basic survival hiking kit.
So ask him to drink one, like I suggested?
Or just walk away?
Why is that less confrontational than asking sharp questions? And the questions get into more than the basic concern of adulteration.
The irony is this is an actual company that actually does this and actually gives a dime from each bottle to charity.
How does that alter the validity of the questions?
Who founded the company? Where'd they get the start-up money? The securing of advertising contracts comes after, wouldn't it? If they were lined up from the get-go, what are those relationships? What's being advertised? I think these are interesting questions I would want to ask.
Tone and style have impact on how someone is understood in any given conversation. If someone is rude in their manner, no matter how pointed their questions are, they don't honestly deserve a response. And if they continue to behave rudely, they can get punched in the mouth. That's why we have manners, a polite society is a civil society.
Or one can ignore them if you judge them to be rude.
Trying to understand a money trail was a good tactic, I thought.