No, Judah and Jerry, you're both wrong. I make no equivalency argument, but both were victims of assault.
However, both assaults should be treated on their own merits, or lack thereof. Yes, Ray is guilty of his assault and should be punished accordingly, whether he hit a man or a woman. The fact that he hit a woman is of no consequence. The woman, apparently, also hit Ray. Also an assault. She should be punished accordingly. The fact that she was hit harder is of no consequence concerning her behavior. Both were wrong and both should be punished accordingly. If she had hit a very weak man, smaller than her, and knocked him out with the exact same blow(s) as she hit Ray with, should her battery not count against her? Is the determining factor for punishment only the result of the battery? They both were at fault and both should be punished: appropriately. Ray hit her too hard, but she hit first and provoked a response. At some point, enough is enough. Should Ray have waited until she began to hit over the head with a baseball bat, threatening his life, before he responded? Don't twist my meaning. Ray was wrong. She was wrong. Just because she got the worst end of the deal doesn't exonerate her guilt. On 9/8/2014 11:24 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > Ah, gotcha, victime blaming. Yeah, Rick should go to hell. > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:372075 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
