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Originally Posted by Plan9
Say what? Really now... what would be the justification then? I'm curious.
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The main one is self defence.
When you hurt someone not to defend yourself but purely for revenge you become no better than them and sometimes worse.
If this girl was cheating on the guy he could have just left her, and preserved both of their dignities.
To run her through this whole thing of making her think he was going to propose, just so he could instead humiliate and hurt her is cruel and sadistic.
She may have been a cheat and her behaviour could rightly be called thoughtless and selfish - but not deliberately cruel as the guy was, and her mistakes do not give the guy some kind of license to hurt her emotionally as much as he can and its all ok. At least not in my opinion.
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And before people accuse me of just being a white knight, I would take the same view if a woman did this to a man.
(although this is very unlikely to happen in real life as no woman would be so brutal, and I am not at all convinced that this incident was not all an act)