I beat up my step dad. Was I wrong in doing so? (Long read)

[danasider]

@Slimebeast

Not trying to start a fight but to call people ignorant for having a stance opposite of yours or the OPs is kinda offensive.

I read the post and I really don't think the final outcome of the situation (violence) was called for. It wasn't self defense, it wasn't protection of a loved one, it was just someone boiling over and sucker punching another guy in the face while he was sitting and then beating him when he (the stepfather) defended himself. How is it ignorant for people to give the OP a piece of their mind when he's asked for reader's opinions on whether he's wrong or right?

And I'm not saying he hasn't had a hard life (I'm sure he did considering he seems to have anger issues and those usually don't stem out of thin air). I'm also not going to claim his step father wasn't an asshole, because I don't know him. But from what the OP said, along with even the latest post where he claimed the stepfather was going to seek therapy and accepted his wrong, I can't help but feel bad for the guy (stepdad) because it seems like he's tried while the OP hasn't. Horrorfest doesn't believe he should contribute anything to his household unless he's compensated, he isn't grateful for what he's been given (because apparently driving lessons, prepared meals, a house over your head, etc. doesn't count since he never asked for any of it and shut himself off from the others, according to his arguments), and he's proposed that anyone else would do the same after all the stepfather's bitching in one of his posts. But I wouldn't, because I have family that's crazy too and that doesn't make me go apeshit on them. I'm not going to have a dick measuring contest, but I can assure you my life isn't grand (and the shit in my life isn't limited to being verbally abused, not getting my parents to buy me a car or being handed a job like Horrorfest states, but real physical abuse among other things I rather not discuss) and that won't ever justify me acting out in a violent way on another person.

The truth is a lot of people had negative things to say because we read what Horrorfest had to say and we didn't agree. Instead of claiming those people are ignorant, maybe you should read the post and stop enabling him by trashing those who don't agree with his perspective.