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I don't get it. If the landlord wants the filming to happen so badly, why doesn't he kick in a few grand to compensate his tenant... That's a lot easier than kicking and screaming all night.

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They are clearly not being rational. Andy leaving for his personal safety is absolutely the right move.

Anyone this aggressive with demonstrably impaired judgement presents a significant threat.

Almost all the time they'll come to their senses. Sometimes they'll escalate.

I have been present for an escalation, a completely irrational one that totally ruined the guy's life. And he was more pulled together beforehand than the behavior in that video.

When people say poverty affects your brain, this is one of the things they mean. Now, the landlord probably isn't poor, but from a poor or normal background, where money isn't abundant enough for such solutions.

It sounds like the opposite, to me. He's a man whose moral compass only aligns to his own self-interest, what's going to enrich him more at any cost, which happens when people lose empathy.

In general, poverty makes humans kinder and more charitable, not crazy and dishonest, while selfishness and apathy for others scales with wealth and resources.

He's a [redacted] yield engineer, and property owner. Not sure where poverty comes into play.

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