McDonald's Beating Victims is Transgender

I saw this on the local news yesterday, and was wondering about it. It hurts to see anyone being beaten that brutally, especially close to home. Makes my heart break a little. ~ HauntedLithium

 

I saw the video last and all I could do was stay shocked. I can't believe people just stood there totally mishandled by staff and management. I really hope there are some serious changes in that place. ~ Rikudo

No person ever deserves to be a victim of violence regardless of their gender identity or presentation. 

We are all different, in many ways, of course, we are similar in many ways as well. What make us respect others? Is it what we told when we are young? or is it your childhood experience that make you do so?

Or is it your conscious decision to respect others?

Violence against minority shows the hate and fear of seeing differences, it may reflect the lack of self confidence. Getting the "control" and "power" through violence, to obtain recognition and approval. It can be seen as imbalance of power.

What we learnt from our parents?

Usually we were told to negotiate when we fight, but we also see parents were fighting with each other in different ways, through words, look, angry noise, punch, etc. Do we really believe in negotiation, discussion, acceptance? or do we rather believe in having control?
Chinese parents may teach their children "Wise people use their word, dumb people use their hand" which means don't show physical violence in fights (but words is okay?!), you definitely get punishment if you use physical violence because it leaves marks but you may get away if you use verbal violence when there's no witness.

What we learnt from our childhood?

Do you feel happy when being acceptance? Do you feel sad when being rejected or discriminated? Do you feel scared when being bullied? Do you feel great when bullying or calling names? The key thing is what was the consequences. When there was no correction after bullying, when there was no comforting after being bullied, rejected, or discriminated, we would generate very different core value in our mind.

NOW

Can we analysis this information from our past and make our decision for now? The choice is in your head and hand, but there's no free lunch.