But again - that's the point. It's about NOT WANTING to absolve myself from responsibility and handing that responsibility over to another (state/police/school etc).
I'm not talking about kangaroo courts, stringing people up from lamp posts etc. But I think that in so many ways it's up to us to take the lead in situations like that, not pass the responsibility to a dubious authority.
I think you're right, but if you take action
on your own you risk various consequences - (a) being perceived as a violent thug yourself; (b) being seriously injured or even killed; (c) being prosecuted by the scrote or their family.
Does that sound cowardly? Probably.
I think ideally we need to get back to a state of affairs which (
perhaps) existed in the past, where the
majority of people "just won't stand for it". Then if you raised your voice in a situation like this, you could expect others to back you up - and hopefully strength of numbers would keep things relatively calm and ensure it never got to the point of physical action.
Whereas nowadays if someone actually stands up to a troublemaker, 99% of the rest of us will bury our heads in the sand and pretend we can't see or hear anything. Or - even worse - treat it as some kind of entertainment to be filmed and posted on YouTube. :|
Taking a much less serious situation as an example, it's amazing how one person can sit and annoy everyone on a bus by playing loud music on their phone - no-one else wants to hear it, but no-one will ask them to turn it down.... because they KNOW no-one else will back them up.
