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Old 21st May 2020, 02:48 PM   #231
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Originally Posted by Thermal View Post
This. As with all stories, at a bare minimum we need both sides opening arguments. Preferably some evidence to weigh.

This gig of skeptics running rampant with one side of the story is just jaw dropping
I was thinking it works rather the other way too. The sorts who are always trying to justify such attacks have thrown in the possibility that what he was doing looked worse than it was, and thus that it's reasonable to go and smash his head in when he doesn't immediately kowtow like the thief he knows he isn't, for the second time in the same store.

In so many of these recent cases, it seems that the victim gets blamed for his attitude, or his belligerence, but how is one supposed to react when attacked for no good reason? There seems, for many, to be an assumption that if you're a ****** you ought to know you are running under a different set of rules, and have no right to be indignant.
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