Surely beating someone up is one of the worst things you can do short of killing them. There is never any excuse for beating someone up and I mean that. There are legal ways and means of dealing with problems.
Obviously there are crimes that have a larger impact on a larger number of people and I know I will get stick for pointing out the obvious as in economic fraudsters and war criminals, but beating someone up is really bad on the micro scale that most of us live and operate by.
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