Saint James Infirmary 281: Cut the Conversation.

[Haight]

I guess I just see escalation to physical violence as rarely the 'right' path.

[mns_95125]

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent only because the incompetent wait that long to use it.

[Werdna]

Let me clarify - I'm not saying it's right to going around punching people out, and in general people should suffer consequences for doing so, but if someone went up to a very good looking woman behind a counter at her store and started sexually harassing her the way Derek did, in her place of work, the attitude among everyone I know would be that a broken nose would serve that person right, and people would have a difficult time mustering anger at someone defending herself in those circumstances.

It would be much harder to justify Jacqui going in and kicking Cherry's ass because Cherry hasn't done anything wrong, as far as any external observer would be able to see.  That is, Jacqui would have kicked open  the door  of a house that wasn't hers and physically assaulted an innocent person, compared to swinging back at a creep in her place of business.  Very different circumstances.

Apologies for bringing us down a road that is at best tangential, and more likely orthogonal, to the forum topic.  So let's get back to discussions of important things, like mind control and boobs.