Do you realise that thinking someone is soft because they are not violent is bully mentality right?
Anyone who is violent to a dog to make it behave in a specific way is also doing things wrong. I can't believe how single minded you are.
A grown man assaulting a teenager is gutless behaviour. There are hundreds of other ways that scenario should have played out but he didn't even get 10 seconds into the encounter before lunging at him. Calling him a hero is absolutely laughable and I really do question your morals and life views if you think that is hero behaviour.
I don't really see any point in discussing this though because you clearly have no interest in actually debating it.
I think you are soft because you can't seem to see how some sort of violence was applicable in this case to solve an issue that most likely won't be solved by using words or what ever soft punishments schools or the police can try to a child, if it was an adult doing this then yes gaol time, a criminal history or a monetary fine would be okay because it is actually applicable to them and gives real world consequences to an adult doing it but to a child it does not.
I'm not singled minded far from it you just can't seem to accept there are other solutions to problems which have been planted in your head as wrong or too outside the box, go tell that to farmers with their work dogs or the trainers who have to train the dogs for the army and police use you don't think they get alittle tough with them to get them to behave or learn quickly? It might seem cruel but they aren't taking it to an extreme...
I never said he was a hero, I only said his actions are fine by me because the man didn't want to see his child hurt and he probably already knew in his head that the school/police weren't going to really help discipline this prick so he went and done it and hopefully achieved what he wanted, tell me the other 100 other ways it should have played out after the kid started smirking/smiling at him about it because that firm talking too would work hey
I don't mind debating but you seem not be seeing the other side of this and the benefits to solve the solution quickly rather than drag it out and make it worse, you haven't seen how bullies get worse once you tell on them to the teachers becase its a real thing that happens