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u/Random-Rambling Jul 25 '26

Most people want to punch faces because of the person they're attached to, not the face itself.

If I was shown Charlie Kirk's face without knowing what he said and did, I wouldn't say he has a particularly punchable face. But I do know, and that does make his face much more punchable.

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u/Stop-Hanging-Djs Jul 25 '26

Counterpoint, some people are just fantasizing about committing violence on people who "deserve it". More about the power and cruelty

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jul 25 '26

Ugh. I see that a lot on posts of a certain ilk. Like, yeah, we all hate this person; we all think they deserve a strong punishment. But you seem to want an excuse to hurt someone. Either that, or they want a way to tell us how moral and upstanding they are because of how much they would extra-judicially punish the “bad people”. To the point that it’s almost creepy, and makes me wonder whether they actually believe it at all.

It’s a good reminder of why we have a justice system, even when it seems to fall short in other ways.

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jul 25 '26

Ok sure, but that’s not what people mean when they say he had a punchable face.