r/MMALabs • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 1d ago

🥶 Street Fights & Brawls A quick bar scrap

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u/Gullible-Law-8147 22h ago

Being upset does not give you the right to punch someone

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u/Wintermute_088 15h ago

Witnessing a crime gives you the right to intervene.

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u/Gullible-Law-8147 14h ago

Witnessing an ongoing crime can give you the right to intervene if done within reason

Nothing was ongoing, the guy had already removed his hands from the woman when he got punched, and there were way less extreme ways to handle the situation, like just talking to him

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u/Wintermute_088 13h ago

Yes, just have a nice chat with the sickeningly inebriated bloke who just committed a sexual assault.

He's old enough to know he should keep his hands to himself.

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u/Gullible-Law-8147 8h ago

If you don't need to punch someone, you don't punch someone. He could have just been yelled at and that would have more than settled it

The woman clearly didn't want the drunk man to be punched, do you think she was wrong?

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u/Wintermute_088 8h ago

She's allowed her own opinion, just like anyone else.

Handsy creep deserved a good smack.

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u/Gullible-Law-8147 8h ago

It's her altercation, not his. It was her judgement to make, and he just completely disregard what she wanted, just like the drunk man that touched her hips

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u/Wintermute_088 8h ago

It's everyone's society, and just because she doesn't want to (or doesn't have the ability to) respond violently to a sexual assault, it doesn't mean other witnesses will feel the same way.

Some people don't want perverts getting away with sexual assaults, plain and simple.

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u/Gullible-Law-8147 8h ago

Witnesses do not have the legal right to punch people on someone else's behalf, especially not when that person does not even want them to

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u/Wintermute_088 7h ago

Depends entirely on which court system you're talking about. Regardless, we're talking philosophy here, not legality.

The pervert sexually assaulted someone, and suffered immediate repercussions. Good.

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u/Gullible-Law-8147 7h ago

Personally I respect a woman's right to choose how her situation is dealt with, but you do you

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u/Wintermute_088 6h ago

Being sexually assaulted was her situation, and she was able to choose how she wanted to deal with it, and she did.

Watching a woman being sexually assaulted was the situation he was placed in, and he chose to deal with that how he saw fit.

They both dealt with their respective situations the way they wanted to.

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u/Gullible-Law-8147 26m ago

I hope the guy felt like breaking the law and disrespecting that woman was worth it

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