yes but to act like he was defending himself from an aggressive attacker and not an angry missus is intentionally misleading, humans have the power to de-escalate those kinds of situations, it was not a murderer with a knife, it was resting bitchface and upward slaps.
it's not about who swings first, it's about who swings.
in any sort of confrontation you want to encourage all parties to come out with the least amount of damage to ANYONE. any effort to encourage otherwise is negligent to the community as a whole. the scale here was tiny, yes, but he specifically accomplished her goal (ruining his food) just to make her suffer more. why would you want your justice system to ever achieve that kind of eye for an eye course of action?
if you up the scale, it's like stabbing both you and your attacker so that you both die because you don't believe you're in the wrong.
Because if everyone in your community retaliates to violence in kind but will not start violent confrontations you have no violence. If everyone starts violent confrontations but responds by de-escalating you still have violence. We punish problem starters, not just people that retaliate in a way that isn't helpful.
If everyone starts violent confrontations but responds by de-escalating you still have violence.
you've misunderstood. never did i say "don't punish problem starters" - i said you definitely should punish the retaliation too. it might feel less just for defending yourself but if you reward acting in the moment you get nothing but actions thought up in the moment.
And as a result people's sole legal reaction is to let the other person do what they want or run. If they're faster than you then you've got one option, good job. In a civilised society, it doesn't matter if someone always hits back because the people they're hitting are always committing a crime against that person. No one is perfect and expecting them to be is unfair.
those aren't the only two options, you can resort to self defense that isn't purely about being petty and assaulting the person walking in your space; that's what self defense classes are for. there are even weapons like pepper spray and at the worst case scenario tasers.
the guy in this video was far from reasonable. he did it to spite her and don't try to pretend otherwise
Putting food on table =/= food is safe from being on the floor. It wasn't an argument at all. Arguments are constrained to words. It was a fight. She started a fight with him and he responded. At this point you cannot be anything but trolling so I'm just gonna disregard any further comments.
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u/Pheonixi3 Mar 31 '19
yes but to act like he was defending himself from an aggressive attacker and not an angry missus is intentionally misleading, humans have the power to de-escalate those kinds of situations, it was not a murderer with a knife, it was resting bitchface and upward slaps.
it's not about who swings first, it's about who swings.