Sunday, January 30, 2011

On Disproportionate Response

If your kid chases my kid with a stick and pokes him in the back of the neck, despite being 3x my kid's age, and I take the stick and thrash your kid with it, that is inappropriate. If I sling your kid across the tarmac after he knocks down my kid, that is in appropriate. Not that the thought doesn't cross my mind, but I wouldn't.

However, if I am the first one to reach them, I hope you won't hold your kid's red ear (from me dragging him to you using it for a handle) against me.

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