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In reply to the discussion: I'm no fan of violence. But I cannot say this bully did not have it coming. [View all]Glassunion
(10,201 posts)You see I've given it quite a bit of thought, and probably most folks replying have as well. You see I cannot think of any good reason whatsoever where a person would be justified in repeatedly punching a visually impaired person who cannot fight back. There really is nothing so dramatic that he could have done at school to deserve being assaulted at lunch. I've honestly gone through all the bad shit that ever happened to me in school, and none of it justifies whailing on a blind kid.
Now the other kid, well he was beating up a blind kid.
So that's probably where the justification comes in. He was relentlessly beating on a blind kid and did need to be stopped. We'd all handle it differently, but you had a group of kids, standing around, some filming a blind kid helplessly getting punched over and over, and none of them did anything to help until that last kid pushed through the crowd and did something. Yes he hurt the kid and that is bad. But he did bring it on himself.