User blog comment:Giotis/Why Luffy and did not fight back when Bellamy hit him?/@comment-86.36.49.1-20101017154328

that not fighting scene was stupid and just a cheap tool from oda to make luffy look more shanks like. Shanks refused to fight because that guy was just wanted to fight and shanks did not want to damage the bar or hurt the women/children there.

However luffy had his dream made fun, his nakama were hurt. Nami was clearly hurt. I understand Luffy is above other people and fights for justice and his nakama only however his dream was being crushed, all the things and people he loved for were being made ridicule of, yet he did not even tell him how important and real those dreams and people are.