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Originally posted by jbduke
I told this story to a class of 12th grade government students today, more than a week after the Artest incident. I was not at all amazed at how much more sympathetic they were to the violinist in this story than they were toward Artest when we talked about that a week ago.
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The thing that amazes me is that they were sympathetic
at all to the violinist. I thought the point of your tale was to show Rut that Artest's behavior would
not be acceptable, even in a different setting (contrary to his explicit claim).
You want us to conclude that it's ok for a concert violinist to vault into the audience and pummel a drunk concert-goer?!?!
How about this story? Girl in a bar is told by a male patron that her fashion sense stinks. She's deeply insulted (or perhaps merely drunk). She throws her drink in the guy's face. The guy then beats the girl. How sympathetic is that guy?
Have we reached the point in our society where getting wet gives one a license to commit bodily injury? Unbelievable.