Samurai_Jerk wrote:Wage Slave wrote:Proportionality - as simple as that.
That's not really a simple concept in legal terms.
Sadly, as your eloquent tale below shows its a downright simplistic one. That is actually a hidden danger with WS's thoroughly decent deconstruction of the comedian's response, in MYflyingHOMO.
Samurai_Jerk wrote: In the eyes of the law in Japan my response was not proportional. I even spoke with a lawyer friend after that and she told me that I probably would have lost in court and that all I had the right to do was push him back and rip his shirt. In Japan if you escalate the violence you're in the wrong. .
In the only instance the cops attended I was also told by the patrolman that I was on serious thin ice, but the instigation was that the guy whose face needed 13 stitches had punched a friend in the back of her head as she walked past him on the street late at night, and there were at least 30 eyewitnesses that agreed that started it and that I had demanded he apologise and only punched him out when he refused. All his sympathetic witnesses were his gang that had also jumped in on the brawl after it got heated and not even the racist patrol sergeant was buying what they were selling. The Colombo that attended wrapped it up when the sergeant kept insisting I needed to be arrested because I had punched a Japanese but wasn't so blessed myself. He was visibly disappointed and even somewhat derisive when I refused to pony up the 30.000 for the hospital bill that Japanese Jimmy Jo was so obviously going to need, but I pointed out that the best way to prevent these sorts of incidents was to strike the fear of the avenging wrath of the Archangel Michael into the scum that start that sort of crap. Which brings us back to:
and sometimes you have to drop an A-Bomb to teach a lesson.Samurai_Jerk wrote: Sometimes you have to escalate the violence to neutralize a threat.
They never ever spoke to me or addressed me in any way after that though being a small city I think they knew it was me when I passed by their usual curbside squat spot.