Hmmmm … ethically, morally, I can’t fault your standpoint, no — not least because, it’s my own, so that would be hypocritical of me ¹.
And, in the long run, yes, it might well be more effective — although, I’m not altogether convinced of that …
But easier?
No.
It’s easier just to punch them in the mouth.
Granted, yes, then you’ll probably have knock them to the floor and keep pounding them until they stop twitching … but a handy chair or stool can help with that — and I have even been on the verge of doing it with the entire table, never mind just a chair, on a couple of occasions.
No, we don’t generally do it, I grant you — even I haven’t had many occasions to resort to ultraviolence ². And, in the long run, I feel there ought to be a better way; as a result of which, I seek to find that way rather than sinking to their level.
But easier?
No … it’s not easier.
It’s just right.
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¹ Although, as a hypocrite, I do have special dispensation — it’s different when I do it, so it’s okay.
² And only in defence of my own life or in defence of others ³.
³ I don’t care if you have just looked up and noticed that you’re at your station and the train is about to leave again, you do not, under any circumstances, shoulderbarge a young mother and her three-month old baby into the dividing glass at the end of the carriage, because I will cross that gap in less than half a second, block your exit, pick you up off your feet and, with only two feet of space in which to do it, without even grazing the mother or her baby as I do so, spin us both around and hurl you six feet onto the platform — there are limits to what behaviour I will accept from people.
