In NYC, a woman was arrested for strangling a guy into unconsciousness for grabbing her bottom. Unfortunately, she strangled the wrong guy. I get it, we all love vigilante justice, but it's not so pretty when you attack the wrong guy, is it? Oh, and by the way-the guy who really did grab her bum should be arrested for sexual assault. So no, I'm not in favor of men acting like pigs and getting away with it.
What the woman did was much worse. As disgusting as an uninvited slap on the bum is (and it is disgusting) it's not going to kill someone. In fact, it's more annoying then deadly. To repeat myself (because this is not a point I wish to be misunderstood) the "man" who did it should have been arrested immediately and brought up on sexual assault charges. However, he doesn't deserve to die for it.
And neither does a totally innocent man. Lets say she strangled the guy into unconsciousness (and she did) and he eventually passed out, hit his head against something and died. Guess what? She will correctly be brought up in manslaughter charges.
We fear the justice system. We fear that justice will not be solved after we've been wronged in some way. While that's unfortunate and true in some cases, it's much worse to take the law into your own hands and pretend you are Dirty Harry.
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