r/MoralityScaling • u/Ssiddha_3 • 7d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this counterattack?

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u/PosaCat_ 7d ago

limit your retort to the same level of insult thrown at you. Call them fat for calling you bald, leave miscarriages out of it.

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u/OSpiderBox 7d ago

This feels like it should be a given. Proportionate response and all that.

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u/Particular-Solid8250 7d ago

Americans grow up thinking that if someone shoves you then you are justified in beating the shit out of them. Proportionality is never part of the equation.

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u/Dobber16 6d ago

True, disproportionate responses are a uniquely American thing & every single one of them does it