Poll: Is it wrong to Fight?

[Dys]

I wouldn't say that you were wrong, as you made it clear you didn't start the fight.
However starting a fight is always wrong.
The only time it isn't wrong is if someone is getting hit alreay, at which point the fight has begun.
It doesn't matter if someone is having sex with your girlfriend in front of you or saying god only knows what about your dead father, it does not, ever, justify you hitting someone.

 

[Brett Alex]

I still feel that I did the right thing, standing up to a past demon, for my beliefs, and for a cause. Is in wrong though to have hurt him, when I have some good amount of muscle and training on him? Was I wrong in hitting him? What about his friends? They were just trying to stick up for a buddy(even though he is an asshole).

Do you live in an 80's semi-action feel good movie? Thats an amazing set of coincidences to take place.

As to the question.. its near impossible to answer. Can you ever justify violence? Is stopping violence with greater violence the right way to go? Then again, its such a base human instinct so doesn't that make it natural?

All questions that I am both under-experienced and under-qualified to answer, perhaps one day.

 

[TomNook]

Its about as a right as eating meat.

 

[ace_of_something]

I work in a jail.

Part of my job is to fight.

However, we never throw the first punch.

 

[Random Argument Man]

Yes fighting is wrong. People will say it's okay in self-defense.

However, you need to neutralized him and not practicly bash him. If you gave him damage like breaking his arm, nose or something. He can sue you for it. You can counter-sue with assault however.

I try to get diplomat and get real with my situations. There's a friend of mine with a hot-headed personnality. It's been 2 times a fight almost started and I calmed him down. Good thing, because the cops were near.

 

[Easykill]

Fighting is fun, and is a great stress reliever, nothing wrong with it.

 

[xitel]

If you're fighting to hurt someone, then it is only okay if it is in self-defense. If you don't hurt them, they will continue to come after you. If you hurt them, by which I mean break their arm or something, they will stop.
If you're fighting for fun, only if the other person is also fighting for fun.

 

[Generic Hero]

I would say it very much depends. If fighting for the sake of your Rep/Trying to prove how hard you are then it's pointless proving nothing. However I never fight back due to my belief in karma and usally if you don't fight back and just dodge, said person trying to attack you goes away as your not giving them what they desire. There are very few situtuions where you can justify fighting.

 

[Easykill]

Woo... Damn, I'm outnumbered here. What's so wrong about fighting? I used to duke it out with my friend all the time until I nearly lost a tooth.

 

[Hattmeister]

I think it's perfectly reasonable to want to fight. I mean, if a guy lays hand on your girlfriend and she dislikes it, I'd like to serve him a knuckle sandwich. That being said, the martial art i use is built around self defence, so for me to take the first strike is always a pain in the ass. Although, I've been taught where an arm breaks the easiest, so put me in the right position and your arm might say crack. But dont worry, I'm a VERY nice guy.

 

[AuntyEthel]

I don't support the troops, the war or any American ideals, but those dudes were acting like cocks and its great you showed them their asses.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

Self-defence is fine, I hope you got the girl as well
I probably couldn't fight to save my life to be honest, unless I took up Kick-Boxing.

 

[51gunner]

#1: If you win, you get the right to decide whether or not it was right.
#2: If you start it properly, you're probably going to win.

 

[FluffX]

It's always ok to fight in self-defence. The problem comes in when you fight too well and end up having to explain to someone else that it was self-defence.

Two examples:

Back in year three, there a gang of year twos, (keep in mind that my birthday is late into the school year, and most of theirs are early on, so we're only a few months different) your general delinquant-to-be, and one of them starts punching me -hard- while the rest cheer him on. I punch him in the nose and it starts bleeding. I get sent inside and told off.

Second time, different school, year 6 we're going somewhere (I forget where.) and someone rushes past me, I begin to run after them (just a little race), when that someone's friend grabs the hood of the coat I was wearing and pulls back, which pulls the front of the coat very hard into my neck. I have two choices: Say "You're choking me." which would have come out as "glrfleffae" or make him stop. I chose the second one. I twist round, punch him (In the face no less, I seem to have a thing for there.) He's on the floor crying, and I'm being told that from now on the teachers will make a not of my behavior in every lesson for a very long time, and that what happened was "The other boy pushed past you, so you got angry and took it out on {Floored boy's name here}." Apparently my lack of visibly marking was conclusive evidence that I was a heartless bastard and that he was a Saint.

 

[Simski]

I'm all for self defense.
I'm against starting fights, however not against defending yourself in one.
Also not against beating chick in self defense, if they attack you first it means they deserve it just as much as anyone else.
That's equality to me.

Although I can take a few punches from either really.
I'm a bit of a masochist, to a certain limit ofcourse.

 

[Blind Punk Riot]

Can't run, can't fight, can't resist making sarcastic remarks.

 

[AlphaLion]

You know what? It's not a concidense really. Infact I was bound to run into them eventually. We live in the same suburbia, We used to go to the same school, and used to hand at the same places. It just so happens that they were the reason I took Karate, and began lifting weights. Because I didn't want to be vitimized.

I'll admit that i'm no Bruce Lee, or Chuck Norris, but with a brown belt in karate, I know more then enough to defend myself. He too was muscled, but not as much as me. He might of thought he out-numbered me but nope.

I guess this makes me Barbaric, to fight, to eat meat, and bring home dead dinosaure.

 

[JMeganSnow]

Violence should be reserved for cases of emergency self-defense, whether a single man defending himself against an attacker, or a country defending itself against an aggressor. Anything else is uncivilized. Violence isn't a sport, it's a means to an end: protecting your life against others who are violent.

A good rule of thumb is this: never fight anyone unless you think you can justify *killing* them in front of a jury.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Arys Tyr! Get down here!

 

[tendo82]

Fighting is generally a bad idea in the US because even if you are justified in doing so you'll probably get sued and end up losing money. If not to your aggressor, than to the lawyer who successfully defended you. In the end, a two minute fight will turn into at least 6-8 months of litigation and an enormous, pounding headache.