My apologies for the lousy title, but the question I want to ask is a bit lengthy for a title. Anyhue, my question is as follows; Is physically hurting someone 'cause they have insulted, disrespected or hurt your feelings - or someone you care about - justified? It's not uncommon to hear someone say something along the lines of, "That guy deserved to get his ass beat 'cause he was talking shit about such and such." or "I'm going to -blam!- you up for saying (insert petty whore shit here)." et cetera, et cetera... But why? Ignoring the obvious fact that there's a thing called freedom of speech (in most places that is) it's absolutely silly to say that someone deserves to get hurt because of the sounds known as words that were produced from their mouth. I had suggested this very thing one day in the anger management group I attend after a fellow attendant had told a story about a friend of his that put someone in a coma because he was talking crap about his parents whom had recently died of cancer (to which I should add, the individual was not aware of this, not that it's really relevant). After hearing this, multiple members of the group exclaimed that he deserved it, while the group overseer and myself were of a different opinion. The conversation then led to a discussion of why he deserved to be put in a comatose state for something he said, with the overseer repeatedly asking "So?" each time one of them said "He deserved it 'cause (insert terrible reasoning and justification here)." or something similar. I eventually decided to speak up by declaring, "There are no words that can be said that would justify you physically hurting someone." (not counting serious threats that someone has full intent on following through with of course) to which the majority of the room either disagreed or didn't seem to have any real opinion one way or the other. The only one that actually agreed with my statement was the overseer. One, rather vocal member of the group tried to mindlessly argue my point by mentioning things that were far out of context and only had vague similarities in comparison to what we were discussing, all the while failing to actually explain how and why hurting someone for what they said is justified. So, assuming you read all that (if you didn't too -blam!-ing bad 'cause I'm not putting a tl;dr for a few short paragraphs) what is your opinion on the matter? Do you honestly believe that you - or anyone else for that matter - is in the right to "F­u­c­k someone up" for insulting you or someone you care about? Edit: Some of you are saying more of the same shit I was hearing in group... You're saying that it is justified, warranted, called for or that the individual deserves it, but none of you are giving any valid reasons as to why or how that is so... Also, since some of you are mentioning how putting someone in a coma is a bit over the top and only [i]a good punch or two is all that's necessary[/i], I should note that he was only punched once...