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Kradek posted...

I feel like if this was a movie from the 80s based around a bully victim standing up for himself who did all of this on his own sans mother pretty much everybody would be going "karma" or "poetic justice".

Like, I'm pretty sure there's actual plots in movies where this has been a thing and I've never heard people complain.

And yet when it happens in real life it somehow makes the bullied victim look worse?

We tend to cheer a lot of things in movies that, if they happened in real life, would actually be horrifying, and I don't think that's the scale against which we want to measure real world morality.

That said, yes, obviously? Are you arguing that there's no difference whatsoever between the bully taking it by force and being freely given it? Because if not, what I said was "I'm less inclined to side as unequivocally with the arrested mother and bullied kid", which is about as minor an opinion shift as I can manage. Personally, my advice would've been to throatpunch the bully the next time they tried to pull something, or to pull the old Bobby Hill, even though I acknowledge I'd be surrending some of the moral high ground in doing so.