What is WRONG with people?

I don't really understand what motivates such people. When they are caught their punishment should be the same. Their crimes aren't different because the person is disabled.

It's actually natural law that people pick on the weak and vulnerable.

Nobody on this thread understands the term natural law, which is something distinct from the laws of nature and is here being presented as something like the law of the jungle.

Nobody on this thread understands the term natural law, which is something distinct from the laws of nature and is here being presented as something like the law of the jungle.

It's also natural law that humans group together and collectivize for the well being of the entire group. Everything we do is natural law.

Do you think the level of distress inflicted on the victim is the same as someone who can see their aggressors?

It all developed as part of a complex civilizational paradigm. I was just pointing out the illogicality of justifying this by saying it's natural, because empathy is also natural.

Well it's not that simple, is it?

grrrrrr.... using these long words just obscures the fact that these little ****s behave like complete ***** and get away with it EVERY ****ING TIME

I'd say much worse.

So perpetrators wise, you don't want to permanently blind them I guess, though I'd sooner just grind them up for pet food, but hey ho. My mum recently had her cornea badly scratched by the actions of a dentist (yeah...go figure) and she couldn't see and said it was extremely painful. So I guess scratch their corneas (not to cause permanent damage) and throw them into one of those American fortress-esque jails, tell the in-mates to show the skinny little Brit chavs a good time for a few days, then they'll go home and have a greater appreciation as to what it feels to be vulnerable and be a victim of cruel harassment.

.....I don't rate my chances for becoming PM, but on the off chance I do, the justice system will have a significant overhaul.

I was just browsing the BBC News site when I came across this article. By now I am almost immune to the idiocy of people, but this story really struck me.

What is the mentality of those people who think it is ok to harass and intimidate a blind person on the street? Do they think it's ok?

Also, I'd like to know what punishment people think the perpetrators would get (if caught), and will that be satisfactory, in your opinion?

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Granted, it's not the most serious issue we face as a society at the moment, but it is disturbingly cruel and heartless, don't you think?

I agree. Sorry, I got carried away - the important thing here is that a blind woman was bullied, and that whilst it had a happy ending here, it goes on unreported all the time. There was a really sad story a few years ago about a mentally ill man.

Yes it is.

It is human nature to both bully and abuse people as well as it is to help each other.

I don't know, how long did they distress them for compared to the average? How many of them where there? How blind was the person, fully or partially sighted? On scale of 1-10 how threatening where the insults? If we're adding points for each of these things how much is being blind worth in their overall distress score? How does a single insult from a passer by to a blind person compared to sustained harassment over a period by multiple persons of a sighted person in terms of sentencing for harassment?

They are just utilising their freedom of speech, to stop this sort of thing is just political correctness gone mad!!!

Looking after the group and the well-being of others does not work if the group is over a certain size. "Society" is obviously well over such a size and that's why there are so many problems.

Hence why OP makes a pointless, moral high ground seeking thread about a woman she doesn't even know and some of the issues she's encountered. I would add also that half the posters in this thread aren't as outraged as they're letting on and are probably enjoying the fact there are immoral sadists committing such acts out there; just so they can look down on them.

We don't have pure freedom of speech. We draw the line where people actually get hurt.

This woman was hurt.

Have you ever been bullied before? Would you like to be? Would you like to be in a position where youths can circle you, taunt you, talk about mugging you right in front of you, and they can still walk away? Because you're blind?

Didn't think so.