Joe90 wrote:
Someone hit the bully at work yesterday. The bully had what was coming to him but the man who hit him got suspended and will probably get fired. While it's immoral to hit someone and I know that hitting isn't the answer, it's still hard to sympathise with the bully, especially after being warned about his behaviour twice and yet still carrying on bullying. So I'm so glad this happened, although it probably hasn't knocked any sense into him, he's most probably secretly glad it happened so that he can have everyone feeling sorry for him - even though most people have said the same thing: "He deserved it!" But I suppose the socially appropriate thing to do is to offer the bully sympathy and try not to let him know you took the suspended man's side.
It all escalated from what sounded like a minor thing but it probably wasn't the minor thing that made him hit the bully, it's probably the way the bully backtalked that really triggered the suspended guy's anger on him, anger that has been building up for a while. If he had hit someone who didn't deserve it, like one of the nice gentlemen there, then I would have been upset, but because this young man is a bully it just kind of feels right that he got his comeuppance even though hitting is morally wrong.
If everyone rallies around the guy who hit the bully, it might pressure management but it also sends a message to the bully that the consensus is he had it coming. Further, it also will provide a common cause to keep people emotionally committed, meaning the bully might become the bullied simply because he can't bully everyone.
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