"Arguing" with me? I thought this was a civil discussion that might involve differing points of view. I don't do personal insults on these types of boards, so I'll leave that aspect to you.
But if you'd like to offer a reason as to why my last post is wrong, i.e. about my point that the perceived intent of the person who initiates the contact would shape the response of the stranger, I'd be curious to read it.
Are you saying the stranger wouldn't ever believe that I mistook them for someone else -- and that's why it's creepy? That the average person in a mall, say, would think it more likely that I had decided to tickle a total stranger, and invented the entire ruse about mistaken identity, because this person would see through the whole caper from the lens of a tickle fetishist?
Or are you saying that they would believe I mistook them for someone else, but still find it creepy simply because anyone tickling a person they know well, in public, is going to automatically be creepy anyway?
Neither seems likely to me, but I'm not sure which you're implying.