That’s a false dichotomy. Reasonable responses are framed as either “kid has low blood sugar so I’m packing him a banana”, or “sorry, we’ll beat him with jumper cables”. There’s like 50 reasonable responses between those extremes.
Do you think that if you were teaching a class and one of the students punched you in the face so hard that they broke your expensive prescription eyewear, that you would actually just dust yourself off and go, “oh dear, you poor thing - are you acting out due to low blood sugar? I can go get you a banana”.
You really think that’s a reasonable response for any human?
That’s a false dichotomy. Reasonable responses are framed as either “kid has low blood sugar so I’m packing him a banana”, or “sorry, we’ll beat him with jumper cables”. There’s like 50 reasonable responses between those extremes.
Do you think that if you were teaching a class and one of the students punched you in the face so hard that they broke your expensive prescription eyewear, that you would actually just dust yourself off and go, “oh dear, you poor thing - are you acting out due to low blood sugar? I can go get you a banana”.
You really think that’s a reasonable response for any human?