[Cavey]

Originally Posted by gingles

There is only one context when you call a child a bad person (quite different from calling their behavior bad or inappropriate) and while a bit of humiliation arising from a situation teaches us something, active humiliation of a child by an adult only shows the adult is behaving more like a child.

It seems two mistakes were made in the confrontation (one by a child learning a lesson and one by an adult who should already know).

Do any of us parents call our children 'bad persons'? My last (hopefully humble) word on this.

DID the CM call her that, or did she interpret it that way? DID the adult "actively humiliate" or did this young adult feel humiliated? Big differences.

We've become this society where we turn the perpetrator into the victim. "The big, bad lady hurt my feelings, while I was stealing a $75 entry fee into DL! Poor me!

I don't know this girl. I can't say what kind of person she is. But if an unkind word makes her rethink her actions, then good. If she claims to have been wronged, well, we can add another victim to society.