I don't care about their history. It's almost irrelevant. It's the concept of accepting donations to go to another country and beat someone up that bothers me. If they just went to harass him that would have been fine. But they went with the intention to beat him up. Even if they did it for free it would still not be the right thing to do. Sticks and stones or whtaever.
It is relevant. It's the most relevant thing about this. Ralph fucked with Cogs life, his family, his way of making money. You'd beat the fuck out of someone that did it to you if you could. Don't even sit there and say you won't. You're not above it. You'd want to exact your revenge against someone that called your mother on livestream and tried to get her to disown you. You'd be upset and you'd feel justified in handing out a few punches.
Cog took donations of like 80 bucks to fly to Portugal. Again, he makes that in half a stream. At least. It's not really anything. It's not like he's spending 500-800 to fly to Europe like it costs in the US.
If you paid attention, you'd literally know that Cog went there to mock and shit talk Ralph in the street. It was Ralph that got aggressive. It was Ralph that got physical. It was Ralph that didn't stop when he got his ass put down the first time, the second time, the THIRD time. It was Ralph that challenged people to fight him. It was Ralph that said nothing is off the table. It was Ralph that brought all this to real life. It was Ralph that brags about being a tough guy who will take anyone on.
And you're going to defend Ralph, who's done all of this, because some snaggle tooth redcoat punched him a few times? When Ralph actually ASKED for it to happen?
We're not the moral police. I'm not going to tell you what's right or wrong. But if you can't see HOW and WHY this escalated to the point it has, I don't know what to tell you. Because I can promise you, if you or most anyone on the planet were in Cogs position, they'd have done the exact same thing, if not worse.
Don't sit there with this holier than thou attitude and don't try to lord over others with your bullshit morality. You've done fucked things and I'm willing to bet that if you were in Cog's position, you'd do the same.