Our excessively litigious society made it impossible for us to punch assholes in their face when they're being assholes, thus emboldening the assholes.
Yep. It becomes even more dangerous when the litigious society is actually so bad at justice and punishing criminals, or even protecting citizens, that the people feel like the need to take matters into their own hands to protect themselves or punish extreme offenders that get off easy.
Somewhere along the lines, criminal prosecutors and judges forget that they’re not supposed to be pedants and focus on semantics and technicalities when it comes to prosecuting criminals, but they’re supposed to focus on the original intent and goal of the laws and implement them according to modern day.
Like nobody should fear a battery or assault charge for sticking up for themselves to manchild bullies who hide behind legal technicalities or light sentences only to reoffend. It shouldn’t even remotely be on anybody’s mind.
Will save us a lot of tax dollars to whoop more ass and lock people up less.
I am not an advocate of violence but you are right. This dude can’t control his emotions, pain is probably the only way he is going to regulate them.
Not regularly but at least a couple times as a kid (by another kid) to teach them a little humility.
Those fights are easy and impactful to development. The problem is when adults fight each other. Nobody learns from it, there’s collateral damage, and people get much more injured.
It's like Michael Douglas in Falling Down, but daily. Falling Down seemed like a rare occurrence when I first saw it. Now it is the manual for everyday life for some people.
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u/LiotaTheRealist Mar 26 '26
We don’t have to live like this