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Lawmaker Wants to Make 'Ghosting' an Emotional Offense

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0:00 [Music] a lawmaker in the philippines has filed a bill seeking to declare the act of ghosting or ending communication with someone with without explanation a form of emotional abuse there should be some kind of repercussion for people to break my heart believe that you should get up scot-free should pay the price [Laughter] i break the ice you pay the price [Laughter] a representative guys representative believes that ghosting causes trauma as it develops feelings of rejection and negro and uh and neglect uh studies have shown that social rejection of any kind activates the same pain pathways in the brain as physical pain meaning there's a biological link

0:50 between rejection hi john ryan believe that john right jr because the things they say about sticks and stones it's true that is honestly how you feel actually sticks in stones and they need to make i have been saying for hundreds of years make that legislation [Laughter] he says it can be like into a form of emotional cruelty it should be punished as an emotional offense what is considered ghosting like if you don't respond in 24 hours or two days or when i was sitting at jollibee i was sitting at the jollibee and uh i was waiting for my girlfriend and she's never showed up never but her clothes showed up but this was like there's no person

1:42 because even you could ghost on text right yeah that's probably what he means so if you so what is ghosting let's say someone was just taking the ████ they couldn't get back to you and don't answer back like is that ghosting no they completely disappeared very beginning of this video i defined it you did yeah yeah but i'll do it again what is it something but nick nick wasn't paying attention ending communication with someone without explanation yeah but for how long though forever dude indefinitely when they just don't respond when you die and turn into a ghost you don't come back to life hey bart how do you define ending ████ [Laughter] that means they have to have a period of time before they can press charges right like it's gotta be like a year or two oh okay i see what you say yeah cause it's like if they panic after three hours that's not really ghosts yeah yeah that's true they were taking the ████ hey there are people like that today eight hours let's say that 48 hours 48. i was seeing this chick and i left my

2:33 phone at home for once and i went in to like the office or whatever and by the time i got home it's like ████ 60 miss tax and ████ holy ████ i was so worried about you and i was like yeah well there should be charges for stuff like that too stalking for like too much harassment the opposite of going is that in the legislation jr yeah that's clause 2. i'm like i know this dick is ████ magic but let's calm down please there should be a text limit right you can't just keep going like hey are you there are you there are you there dude are you there if t-mobile had a feature like that where they said only with t-mobile when we feel like you're getting an excessive amount of text we're just gonna cut that person off it should be like when you try to sign in and you forgot your password and then after a while they're like you try to attempt too many times you gotta chill the ████ sometimes i don't like that though you're bugging steve green a little too much i'm the obsessive guy that texts so

3:23 i don't like this idea yeah there's i i would like i would prefer many texts over being ghosted i'll tell you that hey come here come here and read this like that come here they should call it like so in the interview with cnn philippines tabos the the lawmakers also explain the emotional abuse caused by ghosting is also detrimental to the nation's productivity okay okay if you're a worker that is not in good state of mind your work will be affected because you have been ghosted with your face thank you thank you you're welcome he also added that he he did not indicate any any proposed penalty as he needs to consult his colleagues in further refining the measure his colleagues ghost him see see they're like jr's ████ annoying dude

4:14 like bro it's you you're the problem man just so annoying i like how he took it all the way up to government though yeah dude somebody has to do something he says for me the offense should not be heavy we can impose a penalty of community service for offenders to realize that ghosting is not right that is not right so so he's really looking for at the very least to be like i'm formally ending conversations with you because i don't want to continue i think people who ghost are uh just childish they don't know how to communicate but then like no one's really obligated to communicate with you either it's it's the freedom of no speech at all see there it is it's the freedom of bailing dude that goes people all the time dude oh yeah we know yeah yeah yeah yeah you go when you when you get ghosted though when somebody goes to you it's a pretty clear indicator though you

5:04 know what i mean yeah done no but sometimes they run out of batteries so i go to their house to double check that's like a little gsp little filipino ideas not bad i don't know what happens like people will get to you when they'll get to you like if it's like they're not idiots they saw your task text and then if they forgot because they're busy then they're probably dealing with other ████ and you're not important what if you're like dating them though and like you know you you think you have like a they might dicks in another mouth already you go to the parent house no it is it probably is and then she comes back like dude like i was just snorkeling it was only one hour what the ████ and i'm like sorry that's when the time thing goes if a bar was saying i got i got true story i got dumped one time it was awful and then um

5:54 you know pretty quickly i was like okay uh yeah i've got this breakup and then this chick just ████ pounced on me out of nowhere right she's super cool she's like a ████ model and ████ that was kind of kind of sick and then my ex was like not a model at all i had no right to even ever ████ even be near a modeling agency should have been probably forcibly removed from anywhere near modeling agency shouldn't be allowed to park near there okay so she finds out that i'm with this new chick dude steve green baby and then she gets ████ starts going crazy starts ████ texting me calling me calling call me yeah and then me and this new chick are out and like she goes back to my place we ████ hard i take her ████ like for the first time ever she's quivering you know what i mean and that was our first atm experience too whoa

6:46 thank you no so we're we're like asleep right like this is like hours later we're asleep and then all of a sudden this chick she's like steve steve somebody's here somebody's ████ oh my god this is like 3 45 in the morning oh my god there's a ghost and she's knocking on a door she's in my apartment and i'm like you get to get the ████ out of here i take her outside and walk her to her car and watch her again yeah yeah yeah send her off yeah you so you throw the model away i chucked the model like she was laughing you gotta ████ escape she's crazy so so i just i just harangued her i was like yo what the ████ and she's like crying despondent i'm like you dumped me what the ████ you dumped me hard like you know like dude you're the man

7:38 so what the ████ is that i did yeah she helped you i wasn't even wearing the money suit back she wouldn't set a chance now is it a possession thing i think it was like a it was like an insecurity thing because this new girl is better much prettier than her whatever in her mind you know what i mean like some clearly upgrade yeah right and so that she couldn't handle because i was supposed to like go ████ crawl into a gutter and just like yeah you didn't follow the narrative yeah i like i said it's prettier like in her mind even though she had no right being in the parking lot well that's the that's the fun that's the security removed my friend's going through something similar when i'm in i'm in his his uh ex-wife ████ cheated on him all this stuff and she's like oh yeah we're so much happier without being together or whatever she leaves right and then she's like in this like she's with the love of her life whatever and then so he gets with the mutual friend right and

8:28 then she's like blasting everybody saying like can you believe he's with her he's been grooming her can you believe he's like the age difference is disgusting and i'm like she's in her early 30s what the ████ do you mean by grooming like how could you groom a 30 year old yeah yeah pretty easy it's like are you ████ out of your mind and then like i'm like i thought you were with the love of your life now and you're both happy why do you have to go back and like ████ try to ruin what he's got yeah and i'm like that's why what kind of person does that that's so weird you can't just be happy they have to be miserable yeah yeah and then they they could laugh at their ex and be like and then they're like i'm having the greatest time of my life it's like steve's misery was supposed to be a part of his ex's coping mechanism and without that she can't ████ move on but

9:18 what's ████ up is she's the one that broke up with him in the same situation with my friend but then she had the confidence to break up with him because she put him at a specific point yeah that was her expectation and then now that he's ████ here she's like oh yeah once he rebranded bro she didn't think i'd butterfly out of that ████ that's what i do every ████ time yeah you just get better i've been across crypto again yeah that's why i'm ruining it out again yeah dude money suit and all babies setting it all up the deck is set it's just like the market has to come to me and watch it will it's gonna every time i'm reminded that you're wearing this like how did i stop seeing it it is it's just like we're getting used to it and then i just go off because it's one of those things where if you look close enough you're going to see an optical illusion what's the optical illusion your big dick well it is big it is a dick it's worthy for him it's ████ late in the day y'all

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