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I have avoided TCB for a while because at times there are situations that necessitate this. I visited last week and saw something of interest. Stopped by today to do a follow up search using the forum box and stumbled upon this comment. Last week during a conversaton with a friend, something came up that made me think, and subsequently talk with this friend about the television show, "What Would You Do", hosted by John Quiñones. I don't watch the show and have never once run across a video of the show, yet I have seen enough to know and understand the show's premise. I then found myself on a website where a video of an excerpt from this show was posted, and being somewhat intrigued, I watched.
Interestingly, the video showed the situation my friend and I were discussing. It depicts the subject of both discrimination against and bullying of those least able to defend themselves. While this may seem, and very well may be off topic, the comment I am addressing is made by the one member of the 
who instigates, provokes and incites (insert whatever you would like here, whether it be a given subject matter, person, group, or classification of people in terms of race, gender and/or disabilty, as they all fit); and as a result of these things directly inflicts intentional harm. There is no manner in which I can see how this person's actions can be considered unintentional. I believe it is important to make evident the definition of harm in this particular case because to a certain degree it summates this member.
Harm
noun
1. physical injury or mental damage; hurt:
to do him bodily harm.
2. moral injury; evil; wrong.
verb
3. to do or cause harm to; injure; damage; hurt:
to harm one's reputation.
Instead of verbally dressing down both the individual as well as his inappropriate and unwarranted behavior in defense of the person targeted, which was my first and very strong instinct, I included the link to the aforementioned video (and article) because it exemplifies who and what Joe Pavolik is, and whereas it is said a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million; anecdotally speaking of course.
Judy, you are the best!!!!
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