Do you avoid physical confrontation at all cost?

[MessiahDecoy123]

What would you do to avoid a fight?

 

[Majic Walrus]

I avoid fights with combination of mace and tasers and screaming loudly.

 

[mikethought]

Walk away if possible. If you put your hands on me or on my child I will eff you bad. 'Nuff said, end of story.

 

[CELTICPRED]

I carry a bag of chalk powder to throw in an opponent's eyes at all times.

After that, I have the choice.

 

[Paroxysm]

i'll do my best to avoid it but if i can't i'll tell whoever is trying to fight me that they better be ready for one hell of a fight, then reach up and tighten my red bandanna.

 

[Figs]

It depends on the situation I guess.

You should have had a third option.

 

[Paroxysm]

It depends on the situation I guess.

You should have had a third option.

Mediate.

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

I try to avoid confrontation whatsoever, but if someone won't back off, I'm in for a fight.

 

[Addendum]

Depends. If it doesn't involve me, I see no reason to step in.

 

[Master Chief]

If it's my choice, never fisticuffs. People can talk and shove and whatnot, whatever. The only time I'd start a fight is if I saw some dude beating on a chick, and that's only happened once.

Buck knives are the hottesttt. :heart:

 

[SLVRSR4]

I've only ever fought with my brother and I usually start them.

 

[Manic]

Nobody wants to fight a naked man, and all my clothes are breakaway.

 

[ChickenScratch]

At all cost? That sounds like acquiescence to me. I've never had a problem deescalating a situation, but I've got 24 years of karate that says nobody's ever gonna come out well in a confrontation with me ... if he wishes to push the issue.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

A fight to me means "possibly to the death".

For that reason I avoid fights at all cost. I'd hate to spend my life in prison for something that was avoidable.

 

[8Diagrams(WU)]

There is a certain savagery behind fighting. It doesnt prove anything other than lack of intelligence to control a situation. If its in self defense it is of course acceptable.

 

[Wylie Times]

I try to, but I'm not about to stand there and let somebody wail on me or somebody else.

 

[Bruce Banner]

Its kinda complicated for me.

I'm more re-active than confrontational. I do my best to stay clear of trouble. I'm 21 now but alot has changed since I was 17. I have wised up alot. But my fuse has grown alot shorter. And I've become slightly world weary. But I still have alot of learning to do in this world we live in.

No matter how emotionally satisfying violence can be for a person( and it really is) . It doesn't resolve anything alone.

Now on the flip side. If I had the chance to get even with people. I wouldn't be violent. But I would never stop making them pay.

 

[Lantern Venom]

I fear the ramifications of getting into a fight. There is a high risk of getting into legal/financial/career trouble and it often solves nothing. I doubt there is anything that someone can simply say to me to get a physical response.

However, in a worst-case scenario (like someone attacking one of my kids) I'm more than capable of inflicting serious damage on an opponent.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

I don't go looking for fights. But if a fight comes to me I have problem getting involved. In fact sometimes I enjoy it. The rush of getting into a fight is really quite immense. Even if you take a battering. See taking a few punches or whatever really doesn't bother me.

But these days I don't really like it, coz there is too many *****es out there who use knives or other weapons rather than their fists. But when worst comes to worst I just punch them in the adams apple. No matter how big you are or well trained, you get punched in the adams apple you are going down.

 

[Heretic]

The trick is to out-crazy your opponent.

When someone gets mad at a stranger, they may be willing to punch them. However, if you can convince them in that brief period of time that the decision will forever haunt them, making their life and the lives of their loved ones a living hell then they will think twice.

It's a great strategy...and works every time. You just have to convince them that you are willing to spend the rest of your life behind bars to avoid having them cut in line for a Snickers bar.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

HAHA yea that actually works. I remember when I was 16 me and my mate got jumped by about 20 other kids our age. We tried to talk our way of it but it was inevitable they weren't gonna listen. So I just grabbed the nearest one to me and head butted him about 10 times and started laughing hysterically and shouting. Needless to say the rest of em just backed off.

 

[NotAHenchwench]

The trick is to out-crazy your opponent.

This is very true. I went through some rough times in high school, and by the end of sophomore year, the bullies respected me. Granted, I didn't get that by bullying other people. A friend of mine [who turned out to not be a friend...] pissed me off at the wrong place at the wrong time and I unfortunately lost my cool and showed 3/4 of the school how crazy I was. No punching, but it was enough to be able to lead a quiet life for the rest of high school.

 

[Hound55]

I take more **** for me than I do for the people around me.

I can remember getting into a fight my first week of high school because I can remember a year 10 telling "your momma's so fat jokes" to a friend of mine who clearly wasn't taking them very well.

Grabbed the guy by the throat and demanded he apologise, scared 2/10s of hell out of him it did. He responded by throwing a cross at my jaw which I took and just gave this psychotic grin (so I've been told) to him, threw him against the whiteboard by the throat and tested his lower rib-cage for durability.

Two weeks later he wasn't at the school anymore. I always wondered how he explained that to his parent.

"Mum, Dad, I can't go to that school anymore, a little year 8 beat me up."

 

[Manic]

HAHA yea that actually works. I remember when I was 16 me and my mate got jumped by about 20 other kids our age. We tried to talk our way of it but it was inevitable they weren't gonna listen. So I just grabbed the nearest one to me and head butted him about 10 times and started laughing hysterically and shouting. Needless to say the rest of em just backed off.

Good god. That sounds painful as hell, but I'm so using that if my "crazy naked dude" strategy ever fails.

 

[Go Web Go!]

Avoid it? I guess. I don't really feel physical confrontation is necessary unless you or someone you know is being threatened to the point that the only way to stop it is to sock someone in the mouth. You have your **** talkers and such out there who look to provoke you by running their mouths, but honestly it takes a lot more than a couple of naughty words to get me in a fighting mood. Touch me or anyone close to me and it's a different story. Once you put your hands on someone it's fair game, but I'm not going to be the one initiating something.