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I get both sides of this. On the one hand, my wife and I literally ask for a new table at a restaurant if a child sits next to us and we don't have our food yet. They don't have to be crying, we just bail off to somewhere else and avoid irritation altogether.
On the other hand, slapping a child like that is out of control. If he asked the lady to calm her heathen, then left the area when she ignored him as well (and she would have) then the situation would have been defused. Honestly, being raised as I was, if a random man did that and I was a witness, I would been tempted to beat him silly. I would not have hesitated to restrain him, either way. You just don't do that. We don't have children, but if we did and that happened to my wife and child, I would hunt him down at night and beat him. I've cornered people for less.
Being beaten wildly as a child, anger, no... rage, comes from deep within when I see those things. Even thinking of the situation puts me in fight mode. I'm there right now.
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