As I said, I am betting that more than one man here, if someone walked up to him and called his wife a slut, would probably punch the guy once.
And it happens all the time on TV. Which doesn’t mean “reality”, but what it means is that, in popular culture, we do expect that if you gratuitously insult someone, they might just pop you in the face. And TV teaches that there are many times when you get away with this.
As a person who has never in his life hit someone, and has been punched more than once, it bothers me that we have turned into a nation where we are so feminized that men actually use personal insults to attack the very notion that a fist to the jaw could ever be a justified response to a reprehensible verbal assault.
As I said, you probably will get arrested for it, but that doesn’t mean you didn’t have any reason to do it.
But who knows, maybe you, like me, are a person who just stands there when people insult you. I think that is the right thing to do. But I’ve met few people with that ability, and don’t overly fault people who just get fed up with being called offensive names.
Sometimes, if you get drunk and start insulting people, you have to expect that someone is going to clock you. Maybe it is a crime, but it also is a predictable and understandable human response.
There was no “wife” involved in this incident...
No need to stray from the facts.
There was a young drunk and a black guy who physically and violently attacked the drunk because the drunk allegedly called him a name...There is no justification for physically attacking the drunk here.
This is not complex.
maybe you, like me, are a person who just stands there when people insult you. I think that is the right thing to do.I'm sure the rest of you, unlike the questioner, realize that the answer to his question is staring him in the face -- I would stand there while I was insulted. It is the right thing to do. But I realize that this is a lot of words for that poster to understand. Still, we need to be kind to our less capable freepers, even while we attempt to educate them in basic english comprehension.