I agree. It seems these days that there is a growing lack of personal responsibility among adults. No offense, but it sounds like your friend has been getting his own way for most of his life, and now that he's been thrown a curve ball that he cannot handle, he's not liking it very much. He...
If I thought violence could correct what he did, I could almost agree with you.
And I think that the "bone head" left deeper scars in the form of emotional trauma that will take years to mend, if they ever.
A friend of mine recently confided to me the negative experience she had with being tickled some time ago. She never enjoyed being tickled, and being held down and tickled was not pleasant for her. The guy that tickled her refused to stop even after she screamed at him to stop. When he did...