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The system not making her feel better is not justification for violence. Taking justice into ones own hands with violence is not acceptable. Period. We are not barbarians or wild animals. She could have gone to her parents, a counselor or a trusted adult to help her manage her emotions over the situation until a better resolution could be reached. While it is understandable to want to be violent when feelings are hurt, it isn't acceptable to throw hands, or to encourage others to help you violently assault someone. Her violence will do absolutely nothing to stop the sharing of the photos, it will only appease her momentary desire to lash out, with worse consequences, like getting suspended.
It was foolish, impulsive, unhelpful and unacceptable.
She did. She fucking did all the things that you say she should have done. She availed herself of all the support structures you say she should have utilized, and they all failed her.
Those parents, counselors, and trusted adults could have helped her "manage her emotions" by separating her from the harasser. Instead, they put the two of them together on a bus, effectively unsupervised. She did everything right. All of the social structures that should have supported her failed, and now you're all that the most reasonable course of action she had was direct violence.
The school's actions were foolish, lazy, unhelpful, and unacceptable. In the specific circumstances she faced, her actions were perfectly reasonable.
Managing emotions can't be done through external acts, it is an internal act. Those systems she availed to were still working on the issue, instant gratification is not reasonable. Violence is not a reasonable or effective course of action, it is an impulsive and stupid one and it only made her life worse.
They weren't working the issue, they were ignoring her. The administrators clearly thought she was making shit up.
Now he's facing charges because she forced the police to look into it.
The situation was not resolved when she attacked him and they were not done with it just because they didn't immediately do what she wanted, neither were her parents.
Giving a bit more context it wasn't just this one girl. This was a child porn trading ring with multiple victims, and they all had gone to the school administration and some even went to the police.
And so she handled it herself.
Every moment she waited she was being further victimized, further harassed, and further threatened. Sexual harassment is considered sufficiently threatening behavior for self-defense to be justified, and that's how the police are handling it.
Only if your physical safety is at risk. You can't roll up to a home and beat someone for sharing a picture on the internet, for example.
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Pick a lane.
There is only one lane.
You think it's okay to hit a car thief but not a child pornographer. Your viewpoint is invalid.
I don't think it's acceptable.or wise to violently assault someone over a picture.