I'm going to be completely honest. This is like spanking your child for hitting someone else. Don't you think it's counter productive in a way? To show you it's not alright to hit others or harm others, I'm going to hit you or harm you. Then again, I've dealt with abusive situations where a man was hitting a women and my first instinct was to simply punch him in the face and then try to get the women out of the situation so I don't have much room to talk on the "I'll hit/harm you because you hit/harmed someone else" scenario. I'm all for punishing the prick for being abusive towards someone else but I don't feel like that's the correct way to go about it. It simply reinforces the "if someone hits/harms you it's okay to harm them back in someway" mentality It's just my opinion though and I understand the people that say "he deserved it" because in all honesty he deserved to be punished for his actions.
What about the other way around? When a women hits a man and before you even say it doesn't happen like that my cousin who is a girl up to this day still hits me sometimes because she knows I won't ever hit her back.
