Thread by @PeteOlusoga

If you accidentally smash someone in the face, completely by accident, what do you do?

I'm pretty sure most people would apologise. You'd see if the person was okay.

You might well try to explain that it was an accident, that you didn't mean it... that's fair enough...

But that doesn't mean you didn't just smash someone in the face. You still hurt them, even if unintentionally.

There's still blood.

So you might even think about what it was that you were doing that ended up with you smashing someone in the face.

You might consider whether its a good idea to keep doing it, or if you might do things a different way to avoid smashing people in the face in future...

What you probably WOULDN'T do (as a reasonable person) is have a go at the person you've injured for making YOU look bad.

You probably WOULDN'T tell them that they're being unreasonable and that you never smashed them in the face, that they're mistaken, and it never happened...

You probably WOULDN'T tell the person to just stop bleeding and never discuss it because you're worried people might think you're violent.

You probably WOULDN'T go out of your way to ruin their career because YOU feel like the injured party...

You probably wouldn't do any of that stuff, because you're a reasonable person.

What you probably would do, is apologise and genuinely see what you can do to make it right...

What's more, if you're watching this whole thing unfold, what do you do?

I'm pretty sure most people would gather round the person bleeding from their face and see if they're okay...

I'm pretty sure you'd say to the person who caused the injury, "calm down buddy, no one thinks you're violent, that you just go round smashing faces for fun. Just maybe watch what you're doing next time,"

...and then you'd go back to checking on the person with the smashed face.

You might even continue to support them. Like a few weeks later, be like "hey what's up, how's your face after all that face-smashing business? Bit shit that you've had your face smashed in and now you're being threatened for saying something about it, innit!?"

Maybe thats what you'd do.

Maybe not, I don't know, just a thought.