Especially people in the US seem to have a weird violence boner. It’s (unfortunately) perfectly normal that some people like violence, but over there, a concerning percentage of people think that every minor transgression justifies violence.
Look at the comments below those typical “fuck around and find out” videos. A guy snatches a hat as a bad joke and gets beaten up. That’s not okay, that’s assault, but the comments celebrate it.
In any case, equating taking a hat and physical violence is just absolutely bonkers. Every psychologist would diagnose that as an anger management disorder.
Assault is generally defined as an intentional act that puts another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact. No physical injury is required, but the actor must have intended to cause a harmful or offensive contact with the victim and the victim must have thereby been put in immediate apprehension of such a contact.
“Intention” in the context of assault, means that the act is not accidental, but motive is immaterial.
It does not matter if the goal of the tortfeasor (assaulter) was merely to scare the victim or if the act was meant as a joke.
The tortfeasor need not have intended for the contact to be harmful or offensive, only to have intended the actual contact.
lol it’s a psychological disorder joke bro, it was defensive contact when I grabbed your giant hat off your fucking giant head, can’t you take a joke bro, you got anger issues bro
A lot of it comes from the complete lack of faith that the US police services can/will do anything, and how incredibly poor most of the country is. Someone stealing parts from your car, which is stupidly common here, means you can wind up homeless in a month, easily.
And there’s nothing you can really do to prevent it except beating the shit out of enough people that word gets out to not mess with your stuff (because padlocks are a joke). I don’t condone it, just a really high level summary of where it comes from.
(Also american exceptionalism and extreme self-reliance are a big factor. Fucked up cultural shit we have here…)
Especially people in the US seem to have a weird violence boner. It’s (unfortunately) perfectly normal that some people like violence, but over there, a concerning percentage of people think that every minor transgression justifies violence.
Look at the comments below those typical “fuck around and find out” videos. A guy snatches a hat as a bad joke and gets beaten up. That’s not okay, that’s assault, but the comments celebrate it.
Snatching a hat is also assault.
No. That’s theft at most.
In any case, equating taking a hat and physical violence is just absolutely bonkers. Every psychologist would diagnose that as an anger management disorder.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/assault
lol it’s a psychological disorder joke bro, it was defensive contact when I grabbed your giant hat off your fucking giant head, can’t you take a joke bro, you got anger issues bro
A lot of it comes from the complete lack of faith that the US police services can/will do anything, and how incredibly poor most of the country is. Someone stealing parts from your car, which is stupidly common here, means you can wind up homeless in a month, easily.
And there’s nothing you can really do to prevent it except beating the shit out of enough people that word gets out to not mess with your stuff (because padlocks are a joke). I don’t condone it, just a really high level summary of where it comes from.
(Also american exceptionalism and extreme self-reliance are a big factor. Fucked up cultural shit we have here…)