Forget about assault charges and crap like that.. this is an ethical question.. my friend was being harassed at a bar and i pulled the guy away and beat the s*** outta him.. nobody stopped me so I figured it was the right thing to do
2006-12-06 06:20:54 · 16 answers · asked by phil connors 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Good for you for standing up for youre friend. If I were in a bar and some jerk was harassing me I would hope that I had a friend like you. I am very proud of you, stand by youre friends and they will return the favor someday.
2006-12-06 06:24:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Buster you are lucky your happy tail is NOT in jail. That is ASSAULT AND BATTERY and could be considered a, oh how can I say this--oh yeah, can you say F-E-L-O-N-Y???????????? I don't care what the circumstances were there is NEVER a good reason to touch ANY-BODY in that manner!!!!!!!!!!!! If I had been the person that you beat up I would have called the cops and pressed assault and battery charges on you. Be grateful that you are not in jail where you rightfully belong!!!!!!!! I don't care what some of the others are saying by saying that you were in the right, because you weren't. You showed that you were just as ignorant as he was if not more so for beating him up; if I had been your friend I would have been exceeding embarrassed for you to be with me.
2006-12-06 14:28:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just because nobody stopped you doesn't give you the right to assault him. If this person was that rude you should have moved away from him or just left with your friend. Or asked the owner of the place you were at to have this person removed. Looks good that you stood up to him, but bad choice that violence is your answer. Don't get me wrong. I have felt that someone needs a good butt kicking but that doesn't mean that I am going to their level to do it. You asked!
2006-12-06 14:28:06 · answer #3 · answered by freesample1 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Fighting is never the right thing to do. If the security guard didn't stop you, then he wasn't doing his job. Noone else tried to stop you because they either don't care, they don't want to get involved, they don't want to end up hurt themselves, or they were too drunk to notice there's a fight. I think fighting for your life is the right thing to do...it's called self-defense. If you saw that the guy was about to physically beat her, or was actually doing it...then yes, he deserves to get beat up. Verbal abuse is bad, but not bad enough to get beaten up for it. You could've just handled it differently. Like either ask the security guard to take care of him or if there aren't any security guards, then I don't know, say, "Yo, what's the problem here? Why you're speaking to my friend that way?" Who knows maybe she started up something. Hear both sides of the story first. Then decide what to do. The guy was probably drunk.
2006-12-06 14:30:38 · answer #4 · answered by Lisa2006 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You know, ethics or no ethics, there are times when someone deserves to have the ______beat out of him. Not all crimes make it to court because the case is clear and there is no need to prosecute. If nobody stopped you , clearly that is the case. It also doesn't cost the taxpayers a cent!
Actually, that is probably the ethics of the situation. There's man's law ... and then there is a higher law .... whatever you wish to call it.
2006-12-06 14:29:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'd be royally miffed if some guy beat up a guy that was harassing me. I can handle it myself. Women are not these little wimpy babies that need to be protected by men. If someone offends me with words I'm more than capable of defending myself with words. If someone gets physical with me I'll get physical with them. I once had a boyfriend who thought it was a good idea to punch me in the face. Wrong! He found out quickly that it was a very bad idea. I love and respect men but thinking that they need to protect women because they're too weak or dumb to defend themselves is infantilizing to women.
2006-12-06 17:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by DawnDavenport 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you were right to stand up for your friend
you should have verbally abused him until he swung on you then beat the crap of of him
however since you say you hit him first and he hadn't touched your friend you were wrong to beat him up and showed yourself to be less ethical perhaps this question would be better answered in the etiquette section
2006-12-06 14:28:18 · answer #7 · answered by benbear 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I would not prefer to have a friend or loved one *start* violence on my account. I wouldn't mind if one of them stepped between me and the verbally abusive jerk, and told him to back off. In fact, I would EXPECT that. I would expect that from the bartender also: his business can be affected if he allows one customer to verbally harrass or abuse another.
I would let the a**hole throw the first punch. After I duck and kick him in the 'nads, you can have what is left. Ok? See, at that point, I'm just defending myself, and you are coming to my *rescue*. The cops can have what is left.
2006-12-06 14:29:27 · answer #8 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I would say it is the right thing to do because if no one is going to stop it would just keep on happening again and again until someone did something about it.
P.S by me you did the right thing for the girl who was getting verbally abused
2006-12-06 14:49:24 · answer #9 · answered by Crazyworldwartwofreak_657 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ofcourse u were right o do so ,n so u noticed urself tht nobody stopped u so whats the need of putting a question to this
2006-12-06 15:39:06 · answer #10 · answered by kawal 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋