*sigh*
The more I read the more I realize the problem is out here, in the world, where we seem to have forgotten the big lessons.
Flashback to 1890ish:
A woman walks into a House of Parliament and is promptly kicked out, carried out by two men when she wouldn't leave. The men sit around and say "can you believe the nerve?" and the women sit around saying "what did she expect? I hope she learned her lesson!"
Yes folks, the changes needed are almost always triggered by the populace - usually when a large enough portion of them have had enough. Sounds to me like we're still pretty far from progress.
Extreme example? No, I don't think so. It happens to have a gender basis, but that's only because I deemed it the most identifiable example. Might as well have been a black man going into a white man's barber shop and getting his head shaved as a lesson for his affront and the men talking later how he deserved what he got for his nerve.
Bah.
Why are people talking about them learning a lesson? Why are we not talking about teaching the perps a lesson? Would you say to your child, who has come home with a bloody nose, given to him by Stevie the Bully, "Well, what were you doing where Stevie could see you? I hope you learned your lesson and will stay hidden from now on!" I hope not. I really, really hope not.
Another voice of reason !
