John Dryden, also an English poet, wrote: “Must I at length the sword of justice draw? O curst effect of necessary law! How ill my fear they by my mercy scan, Beware the fury of a patient man. Law they require, let Law then show her face; They could not be content to look on Grace, Her hinder parts, but with a daring eye, To tempt the terror of her front and die.”

An unknown internet commentator once wrote: “F*** around and find out.”

The warning is simple. Push a good person too much and you’re going to witness wrath as you’ve never seen before. The fuse might be long, but it’s attached to an incredibly large bomb.

I keep seeing this demonstrated in increasing volume lately, and I don’t mean it on a societal level. I could go on a rant about the silent majority and how pushing them to the brink will inevitably cause them to revolt but at this time the general populace has no banner to gather under to form a revolt. That used to be considered the Republican Party, but that’s been tossed out as of late.

I’m talking on a peer-to-peer level. I’m talking about how blind emotion and a lack of virtues have caused more and more of the youth to resort to unprovoked violence. I’m talking about how men are increasingly dealing with women who think it’s okay to drive a man to violence and then claim victimhood when he finally breaks. I’m talking about domestic terrorists like Antifa pushing normal citizens to the point where gangs form and fighting breaks out.

Moreover, when this snapping does happen, we have to argue about whether the person who snapped was right or wrong. It’s this argument I’m tired of having and I want to provide some examples.

You might have seen this going around Twitter for a short time. A boy, likely between the ages of 12 and 14, is seen pushing a grown man, cursing at him, and eventually hitting him. According to a bystander who was filming the whole situation, the boy and his friends were messing with cars in a parking lot, and once told to stop, the boy in the video proceeded to become physical.

The man the boy assaults tries his best to ignore the kid, but after a time it was clear that the boy wasn’t letting up. The man grabs the boy by the back of his neck and proceeds to fling him away and to the ground, prompting the kid to begin crying and accusing everyone of child abuse with quite a bit of cursing.

Full Video For Context: pic.twitter.com/GbFDkT1WJQ

— Fight Haven (@FightHaven) January 23, 2023

Another example is one seen far too often nowadays. A young woman will push a man, mouthing off to him, touching him, and getting in his personal space. The man will warn her multiple times to stop. He’ll back away even as he’s jeered and mocked by onlookers for getting bullied by a girl.

Then, at some point his patience becomes exhausted, the mocking becomes too much, and he can only see one way out of this situation. So he swings. In this video, the boy in question clearly isn’t built for fighting and doesn’t have a lot of experience. The girls he fought weren’t too hurt, but they’re one of the lucky ones. Some girls pick fights with men who clearly are too strong and too experienced for that kind of foolishness.

He warned her… Multiple times…
Was this justified? pic.twitter.com/c9tSj96Jpq

— Fight Haven (@FightHaven) January 13, 2023

Keep in mind that both of these examples are just one of many instances I’ve seen. Entire subreddits and Twitter accounts depict these kinds of interactions and always with the question of whether or not the violence from the man was justified.

At some point, one has to wonder if we’ve said “no”  on any justification of a man doing violence against women or young teenagers too often and, as such, we’ve created an entitlement mentality that creates bullies. In too many instances I’ve seen the “you should never hit a woman” mentality from the people who spent the last few minutes assaulting a patient man trying to tell them to stop.

I’ve seen too many young teenagers pick fights with authority figures thinking they’d never get hit back.

At some point, we have to agree that there is indeed a line and that the “there’s never any reason to” idea has to go lest it creates more violence. If we still lived in a society where logic and reason ruled the day and emotion wasn’t so prevalent, this opinion could rightly be tossed into the garbage.

But it’s clear we don’t live there anymore, and perhaps we should be a bit more understanding toward the patient men who tried but had little choice.

It might be time to draw a new line and let a little violence be a demonstration that stops a lot more.