woman gets on stage to dance behind performer, he punches her HARD!!! gets arrested

[Vattel]

492. This has got to be one of the most insane threads ever. Thanks for your sane contributions.

We have seen various Duers make a variety of clearly false claims in defense of Afroman's behavior. We have heard that it was an unfortunate accident, that it was unintentional, an involuntary reflex, justifiable self-defense, and understandable given how many performers are attacked these days. We have heard people say that if someone touched them from behind they would respond as Afroman did. We have also seen defenders of Afroman accuse some of his critics of being motivated by racism. Of course no actual evidence of racism was offered.

Let's be clear:

It was not an accident or unintentional. He was trying to hit another human being. That is obvious. He may have thought it was a heckler (if his story is true), but he clearly was trying to hit someone.

It was not an involuntary reflex reaction. That would make it like blinking when something suddenly flies towards one's eyes. It was motivated behavior and involuntary reflex actions are not motivated.

It was not justifiable self-defense. Justifiable self-defense requires a proportionate response to the reasonable belief that one is in serious danger. Afroman did not reasonably believe that he was in serious danger. And his response was obviously disproportionate to the relatively minor assault on his person. And no, the fact that some performers have been hurt by fans on stage doesn't show that there was any serious threat here. Zillions of fans have come onto zillions of stages in performances and not hurt anyone.

edited to add: I am not coming back to this thread. I am tired of defending the obvious.
Anyone who says that they would punch someone in response to being touched from behind should seek help. Imagine being on a dance floor and someone you don't know has had a little too much to drink and starts to flirtatiously bump his or her butt into you. Your response: Hit them as hard as you can in the face. Is that sane behavior? Obviously not.

And for those who resorted to calling those critics of Afroman racist, there is plenty of real racism to worry about in the world. There is no need to make irresponsible charges of racism.