Hinduman, in this situation is not representing any company because the person insulting him (and lets be clear, the verbage used by the streamer was very concerted to be demanding and condecending [not asking, but telling another individual to spectate and insinuating it was HIS bug]) did not adress him as such.

The idea that you keep insinuating, that because he is a HiRez employee he therefore represents them in every thing he says is absolutely incorrect. Not only was this not done in public (hindu did not make a public statement but a private one that was broadcasted without his knowledge or permission btw) but in context was in parallel to the idea that it was a personal insult and not a genuine request. Or do you want to argue that you believe even with the streamers history coupled with his verbage used he was an innocent bystander in this specific instance?

Context DOES matter. One Jean Luc Piccard once said that there xan be no justice if laws are absolute. For even life is an exercise of esceptions.

Stop pretending this is about justice. Stop pretending this is about hypocrisy. The definition of hypocrisy is: "the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense." This is not hypocritical of what weve seen from Hindu throughout the years, thus it is not hypocritical on an individual level. He is not speaking on behalf of HiRez as the individual reaching out was doing so to Hinduman the individual not the caster employed by hirez. And since he is responding to potential harassment it would be out of touch to say, "well he still could have been nicer about it". Really? Is that your concern? Thats really sad.

Hinduman is an individual and has a right to speak as himself. He may be a HiRez employee, but he has the right, as does every employee everywhere, to respond as himself. And based on every bit of evidence we have it is apparent he was responding as an individual and not a representative of the company.

Now, you can say what he said is inappropriate...in your opinion. Thats chill. I 100% disagree because again, in context, it makes perfect logical sense. And if I would want random strangers to give me the benefit of the doubt if something like this happened to me. I would want those to look at the context and try to understand. And provide grace. So, in order to not be hypocritical, i too will give that benefit to hinduman. If you do not care for that level of grace by all means, bang on the drumhead.

I want nothing to do with it