Poll: Is it wrong to Fight?

[AlphaLion]

I don't choose my battles, they choose me.
------------------------------------------
Eariler today, I beat the crap out of a couple a idiots. I had a good 50 pounds on them and martial arts training so I knew there was no way in hell they would win. Now I usually can keep my clam, but sometimes it just comes out, mostly when they think they can win by ganging up on me. Let me start at the beginning thou...

This morning, I woke up and did the usual saturday morning routine. Wake up, shower, eat, get dressed, play video games, call my friends. By 1:00 or 2:00 i usual head out, either to hang with my buds or my FB's. Depends how i'm feeling, but today I wanted to just take a nice walk down memorie lane. I visited an old neighboorhoud I used to live in(walked). I finally got to an old park I used to play in.

At the park I found this hot babe, sitting on a bench. So I do my thing. After awhile I(like a minute) I realized that it was an old friend! She used to be the only girl who hung out with me(I was dork, she was tomboy). So I start to catch up when A few guys come up to the bench. It was an old elementry school bully and his "gang". He starts by calling me old, cruel nicknames, telling me a loser could get his Maddi, etc...

Now clearly I give her my number I start to walk away. But no, no, no, he must try and make me look like a loser again, and intimdated me. Then he brings up shit about how he used to bully me and then he made his mistake. He brought my beilfs into it. I deeply respect the soldiers, and how brave they are. He goes on a rant, demoralizing them, me and my dead father. Then, to add to that, he tried and punched me.

I didn't realized that he'd hit me until the third time he hit me in the balls(what a dirtbag). He friends are laughing until I tear him a new one. I punch him in the gut and then smash him face into my knee. His friends try to help but most didn;t dare attack me, the few that did, got knocked out. They brought out my last resort beast. The chick in the mean time, called an ambluence(she was afraid before I was gonna get my ass kicked). After I finish him, the guys drag their friends away.

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).

What about fighting in general? Is it wrong to hurt, or even kill people? Like think as fighting in general, from war to school yard.

I think that fighting for a cause is possible, or even between to guys who agree to fight each other, not because they have problems but because they want to try. Although, I think of it as a last resort tool.

 

[Corven]

sounds to me that you were just defending yourself since he attacked you first, that's perfectly reasonable.

 

[Jark212]

If someone picks a fight with you it's ok to beat them up, but if you pick a fight with someone who doesen't diserve to get there ass kicked it's not ok...

 

[ffxfriek]

good for you i respect that. one day i will go crazy on certain people makin fun of my beliefes, my best friend with cancer, my crush )who btw happens to be their friend). u still won the chick though right? plz tell me u won the chick. and nice in that case fighting is wrong. but let them make first move then its ok. but dont ever throw the first punch then its wrong. and theres also 2 kidsn fo fights. a fight for your life and a fight for your pride. that sounded a bit like both so its all good anyways. making fun of dead family members is crossing the lines and deserves an @$$ whooping in my books ne how. hope if they mess with ya again u give it to em strait again rock on \_/

 

[Jaythulhu]

Now I usually can keep my clam, but sometimes it just comes out

Special clam pouch?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

I do agree with the above posters tho. Ya were acting in self-defense, and there's nothing wrong with that. I've been in a similar situation myself not so long ago. With any luck, the douchebags have learnt a lesson.

 

[searanox]

You were completely justified. While I in no way support attacking other people without reason, if someone provokes or otherwise attacks you then it is within your rights and in accordance with your nature to seek your revenge.

 

[Jobz]

Gotta admit, something about this story seems either made up or completely exaggerated. Things such as you not noticing he hit you until the third time he hit you in the balls. Come on, I don't give a damn how tough you are, a hit in the balls is a hit in the balls. You notice that. Anyway, I won't nitpick at the rest of the story.

On topic;

I don't think fighting is wrong provided you are fighting for the right reasons. If someone attacks you, you fight back. If someone disrespects my family or my friends (Girlfriends included under friends) I'll probably attack them. If someone disrespects me I tend to walk away, never really cared what people say about be personally.

Aside from that, if my friend(s) is involved in a fight, I back him up first and ask why later. That's just the way I was brought up, unless he attacks someone for no good reason, then it's his problem and he suffers the consequences of his actions (Unless of course a knife is pulled or something like that, then we step in and try to break it up.)If he is attacked or someone is disrespecting him or his family we back him up, no matter what. Basically we go by the code that if you want to fight one of us you have to fight all of us.

Fighting can be a pretty good test of friendship too. When a bunch of other guys are in your face and they're going to beat you down, the ones who step up to help without a second thought are your true friends. The ones who back away to me are cowards and aren't worth being friends with.

 

[Maet]

I try to win my battles by outwitting and outsmarting the opponent. I think it's wrong to provoke conflict, but perfectly reasonable to respond to it.

 

[Ultrajoe]

Fighting solves nothing.

But the ability to defend yourself is not in conflict with Pacifism.

I voted never, but not in an absolute sense, there will always be times when people will not back down.

In short, Violence degrades all involved. Running is always the better option.

 

[GenHellspawn]

Special clam pouch?

Ya were acting in self-defense

With any luck, the douchebags have learnt a lesson.

...lol?

 

[Flour]

Starting a fight is never good, only defending yourself is allowed IMO.

 

[AlphaLion]

Thanks guys, and the chick is an old friend. Of course she mine, but I only want her as a friend. I have more then enough on my plate. Anyways, of course I didn't hear anything past him taunting soldiers and my father. Even if he hadn't thrown a punch, I knew I was gonna end up hurting him. How many times have you wanted to hurt someone because they pissed you off? Like an old bully, or something of the sort.

The scary thing is, I know the weak spots on humans and i have more then enough power to hit them and cause, death. Lucky that I only beat him out cold. I bring this up because a few friends of mine say that I shouldn't have over powered him. He was just trying to be a man(even if he is an evil rat).

But when I say fight I mean more then two kids fighting. I mean when world powers are confronted by others. Or when two people fight in a ring or in an underground fight club. As far as the mind can go.

BTW, i meant, He hit me in the stomach twice(somewhere in that area) and then he pussied out and hit me in the balls. I was to angery to notice the hits he made on my muscles. But the balls are senstive. It took me a few moment to recover from that.

 

[Imitation Saccharin]

It's only alright to fight when it's an impossibly sanitized, consequence-free form of it which acts as a stopgap for male bonding in a culture that has stripped them of every other truly expressive communication form while simultaneously eliminating their ability to truly emote because such things are "teh gay".

 

[ffxfriek]

Thanks guys, and the chick is an old friend. Of course she mine, but I only want her as a friend. I have more then enough on my plate. Anyways, of course I didn't hear anything past him taunting soldiers and my father. Even if he hadn't thrown a punch, I knew I was gonna end up hurting him. How many times have you wanted to hurt someone because they pissed you off? Like an old bully, or something of the sort.

The scary thing is, I know the weak spots on humans and i have more then enough power to hit them and cause, death. Lucky that I only beat him out cold. I bring this up because a few friends of mine say that I shouldn't have over powered him. He was just trying to be a man(even if he is an evil rat).

But when I say fight I mean more then two kids fighting. I mean when world powers are confronted by others. Or when two people fight in a ring or in an underground fight club. As far as the mind can go

3


agreed. u got no idea lol...no idea. all the time ast year i was really close though but in the last second i got it back under control. though now that i look back at it. i shouldve cuz the line was crossed every day and i sat there like an idiot saying nothing to defend myself. uugh.. im so sloow.

 

[AlphaLion]

It's only alright to fight when it's an impossibly sanitized, consequence-free form of it which acts as a stopgap for male bonding in a culture that has stripped them of every other truly expressive communication form while simultaneously eliminating their ability to truly emote because such things are "teh gay".

...
So fight club, as in the bradd pitt movie?

 

[Imitation Saccharin]

So fight club, as in the bradd pitt movie?

Yes, Ted. That was the joke.

 

[AlphaLion]

So fight club, as in the bradd pitt movie?

Yes, Ted. That was the joke.

Just saying, that movie was awesome. Give me a break. Maybe no one else has seen it, and won't get the joke. =P still great movie though.

 

[Limos]

Well personally I'm an uncoordinated beanpole with no muscle. So I'm not one for picking fights. But I have noticed that I can pop a guy in his teeth quick enough that he just get surprised out of fighting.

I am also notorious for backhanding people who are stupid.

I think it's because I slouch, like a lot, enough that I lose a full foot of height and I tend to be compact when sitting. So people don't realize how long my arms are. When they think I'm smaller than I am and that their outside my reach I can lunge from sitting and pop them in the mouth.

 

[ffxfriek]

Well personally I'm an uncoordinated beanpole with no muscle. So I'm not one for picking fights. But I have noticed that I can pop a guy in his teeth quick enough that he just get surprised out of fighting.

I am also notorious for backhanding people who are stupid.

I think it's because I slouch, like a lot, enough that I lose a full foot of height and I tend to be compact when sitting. So people don't realize how long my arms are. When they think I'm smaller than I am and that their outside my reach I can lunge from sitting and pop them in the mouth.

nice

 

[ward.]

You probably should have let it go but there's nothing wrong with defending yourself.