If I have beef with someone, I could punch them and go to jail.

But I can also bully them, humiliate them, degrade them, psychologically annihilate them even, and that’s fine, legallly. Why?

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        5 months ago

        Because society is so terrified of the technologies we have created that it has adopted the ideal that everything needs to be perfect right here and now, and so any deviation from acting out that Utopian fantasy is met harshly, even though it’s obviously not true to any rational person.

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        5 months ago

        You can punch them, but it’s battery. The same way you can mentally assault them, but that’s harassment.

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        5 months ago

        “Who deserves it”

        For what reason? You’re being awfully vague here. You’re awfully invested in causing harm to someone for extremely vague reasons.

        Punching him feels dirty because its fucked up. Stop looking for a different avenue to be fucked up that you’re going to be more mentally okay with. Disgusting behavior.

        You are 100% the bully. Normal people don’t seek out ways to cause harm.