re: Video of suspended FSU QB punching a girl

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What threat was she really to him?

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What does it matter?

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Well, I think that the only good justification for the use of violence is self defense and protection. The level of violence that you use to protect yourself should meet the level of threat. e.g. If it seems reasonably likely that someone is about to gravely injure you or possibly kill you then you have the right to use deadly force in response, as an extreme example. If there is no real danger of getting hurt then the amount of violence that is appropriate to use goes down. I think that you probably don't disagree with this.

The fact is that without some kind of a weapon, most average women don't pose a threat physically to most average men. This is just an unavoidable inequity that is a part of nature. The interesting question would be if this wasn't an average situation, and it had been a big ole gal bucking up on some little dude.