The flipside - "This is how it's always been, and we've gotten enough people that *we* can do it now." Imagine a kid who gets bullied for several years. Suddenly, the tables have turned, and *he*'s the one in charge. The gracious thing to do is to let bygones be bygones, but how many people are actually going to do that, especially since the bullies would go right back to it if the tables turned again?