I think technically not, as the check in desk wouldn't be a medical professional, but rather clerical staff.
However, the fact that they're impersonating a person who works directly with a doctor should (but likely doesn't by law) count. Frankly I think it's bullshit that it doesn't count, considering the end result would be the same.
I swear to god I am not a violent person but i think with things like this, it should be perfectly legal to slap that person once really hard and walk away.
Yeah... Honestly, I'm not saying we should go back to the medieval times, but people have such fucking audacity to do terrible shit today because they're basically free of any violent repercussions. Or if they do suffer them, the person gets put in prison, even if it was morally justified.
The worry is that it's hard to define the specific circumstances where violent responses are valid, and there are plenty of people who think that some tiny slight would be worth a fight over, and a lot more of those people carry guns than reasonable people who would only respond with force to extreme harassment.
For every service worker being harassed by a Karen to the point of tears, there's a Karen who thinks that a service worker saying "no you can't have her arrested for taking the last apple" is worth hurting them over, and while, for most circumstances, reasonable people would all agree, prejudice is a huge issue. What happens when someone assaults an autistic person because they had a meltdown and were incoherent, even though they weren't actually hurting or targeting anyone else (meltdowns often cause self harm, it's extremely rare, rarer than allistic people hurting people in regular tantrums, for an autistic person to actually target the people around them), and the fact that the autistic person can't look anyone in the eye makes everyone trust their assaulter? What happens when some black guy gets attacked at a rural gas station while driving cross country, and the majority of the people around him are racist assholes who want to go back to the days where black people could be lynched over any accusation?
I absolutely think it's morally justified to hurt the people who are actively harassing others. I don't think it would be to hunt them down since at that point, you can prevent further harm via other tactics, but in the moment? Yeah, punching them in the face is absolutely appropriate. But we have to treat any system as though it's going to be abused. Just as Jury nullification has protected as many, if not more, bigots who assaulted someone that the jury agrees is inferior than it has protected people charged with a crime that shouldn't be illegal.
Back in the day you mentioned when they lynched black people was called mob rule. People that felt they were doing the justice then and there off the smallest slight. Careful what you say. Harassment is not enough to get violent and if it is we might as well not have law.
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u/RenegonParagade 15d ago
Would that count as impersonating a medical professional? I think it should, but I have no clue if it would actually count or not