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Could always say, as you pass, "The bad news for you is he gets to decide what nursing home you go to. And one day you will be an old man, and he'll be a strapping bruiser in his prime. Abuse of the elderly is a terrible problem, but there are cases where it's richly justified."
NO, you cannot say this when you do not even know why the father hit his son This is threatening, geez!
This is provocation, he will answer you "mind your own business, ' and rightfully so!
Just watch for repetitions.
I say keep to yourself, peopld are too nosey in the wrong ways, these days.
This ^^^^^
That's a good point, I mean he smacked his son, parents have the right to discipline their kids, we do not know what the kid did? Maybe he was using drugs? Had sex with the neighbor's daughter? Do you know?
I heard the "I'll give you something to cry about" more times than I can count from my mentally and physically abusive religious father during my horrid childhood.
The subject of this topic should have been reported and it could have been done anonymously.
What if the smack was justified, it's possible, you know!
Maybe its a false hope but I like to think that an anonomous phone call to child services or the police or even the school would end up documented somewhere. With no actual person it probably wouldn't be acted on but the documentation would be there if there was ever another incident. Or give the school something to look out for.
IDK, just a thought.
you did the right thing, you just gotta mind your own business even though your moral compass is kicking your rear end.
look at it this way, if you could clone yourself into 10 million 'yous' and placed yourself in the 10 million worst areas in the country and the world, would this be the worst thing any of your 10 million clones would have seen? Not even close. You would witness 100x worse stuff, this wouldn't be a blip on a radar screen in the big scheme of things.
Also, even if the odds are that nothing would happen and this guy wouldn't retaliate, your mind thinks he would and your life would be miserable for what seems like an eternity, it might even compel you to move.
the 'benefit' you get out of turning this guy in is not even close to the turmoil you would go thru worrying about turning him in and what he might do in the future.
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