Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
Here's another way of looking at it. Say your kid is being bullied at school. The teachers aren't doing much to stop it but your kid's friends get some revenge during the breaktime kick-about with some deliberate kicks.

Which parent is not going to be pleased at some level that the kid "got what was coming to him"?
The very fact you've had to scale it down to the level of a children's playground in order to justify it sort of tells its own story.