• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    His goal was to demonstrate that he was a crazy animal. That was the thing he was hoping would keep the bullying away: demonstrating a lack of constraint.

    It wasn’t so much about disabling the other boy as about establishing an image as an unpredictable enemy.

    • abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      His goal was to point out that it wasn’t worth it to mess with him, he’s going to fight back hard and take you out. It was about deterring him from wanting to ever pick on him. Right, his goal wasn’t to permanently disfigure him, but to establish a permanent idea that it isn’t worth it to pick on him