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Originally Posted by Zeraph
But sometimes you need immediate action and sometimes that guy isn't going to/can't be caught.
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Our slapping friend from the news story did. Two anecdotes to one. Sorry your coach didn't serve time or get his head blown off...
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Originally Posted by Zeraph
I've had this happen to me as a child? I don't think one can get a better perspective than that.
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Children have no perspective but their own, by definition. "It happened to me as a child" is likely the single most suspect thing a human being can say. Ask any psychologist. Case in point, notice your post starts by acknowledging that, but then you go on to talk as if how you experienced it as a child WAS objectively what happened.
You didn't break down into tears because of the coach's vicious mitting of your poor little head. You broke down into tears from the humiliation of it, the hurt feelings of it, the surprise of it. Fundamentally a self-perspectived phenomenon, and very appropriate to a child. So I'm sorry you had that experience, but you can't go thinking it informs how grown people ought to behave.