How can you ever truely know yourself, if you've never been in a fight?

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Do you have any idea what having a criminal conviction does to someone? For me - having someone paying the rest of their life working nothing jobs, struggling to get by is much more of a penance that me breaking his neck. Physical wounds heal reasonably quickly - a life of hell, paying for your crime is much, much worse.

I feel sorry for your mother RJ.

Some of the greatest and most influential people have gone to jail for some part of their life, and it didnt ruin them.

Fighting is not always the end of all things to happen, it is not degrading any moral or social fabric that we, as intellectual animals, are holding on to. A good ol' fashion fist fight is not gonna ruin your life, especially if its to defend your mother from some assailant.

hey i do not support violence, hell if anyone is against it it's me.
i have seen 2 wars, i have lost everything, my home, my friends, my childhood and all that i have left is my family and if somebody ever hurt them there would be no first or second or third option for me.

that's what im trying to say guys, fuck i wish that there was no violence in this world but it aint like that.

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Originally posted by Rodrico How can you ever truly know yourself, if you've never been in a fight?

When I was younger and less experienced I used to fight whenever one presented itself. I guess growing older, wiser and learning about the world has taught me that there are better ways to solve problems.

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Originally posted by Rodrico Some of the greatest and most influential people have gone to jail for some part of their life, and it didn’t ruin them.

Some prefer influence by violence/intimidation; some prefer influence by honor/good deeds.

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Originally posted by Rodrico especially if its to defend your mother from some assailant.

I wouldn't stand by and watch my mother be assaulted - don't be unreasonable.

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Originally posted by rabbitjoker When I was younger and less experienced I used to fight whenever one presented itself. I guess growing older, wiser and learning about the world has taught me that there are better ways to solve problems.

Translation: I am getting to old to fight and I am going soft in my old age. :P

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Some prefer influence by violence/intimidation; some prefer influence by honor/good deeds.

I would gladly go to jail for an honorable/good deed, there is no shame in being honorable and good. Like I said, jail isn't the end of ones life, regardless of how your take is on it.

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I wouldn't stand by and watch my mother be assaulted - don't be unreasonable.

Well, from what I was reading, it seemed like you may of. In my books, if you aint gonna fight for your mother, you are branded a bonified "PUSSY" for life.

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Originally posted by Rodrico you are branded a bonified "PUSSY" for life.

OK USA.

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I know you are! But what am I?

You haven't gotten anywhere, you all just keep restating the bloody point. Destruction is rarely positive unless planned. That's all there is to it. Think about it!

Speaking of fighting...*cough*

Come on guys, you're giving RJ an extreme situation to which everyone will know the answer to, to justify your arguement; low blow...

All RJ is saying is that given the choice of whether to fight or not; he'd choose not to.
Do that make him a pussy? No.
Takes a bigger man to walk away IMHO.

Look at it this way, what's the first thing you learn when taking any martial art?
If you can, walk away...

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Originally posted by d!abolic The world doesn't revolve around you - just because you can't see something doesn't mean it isn't there. Is that you on the pic? If so, you really shouldn't be talking. I work out 6 days a week like clockwork. So if someone beats up your mother, you'll issue a public notice? I've heard enough.

either this is some stupid post to prove a point and get RJ angry or you are just an asshole.

FIGHT CLUB!!!!!!

no seriously, fighting violence with violence is not the answer cos the ping-pong game will continue as can be seen from a larger scale i.e. Balkan War, Mid-East War ... nothing but a constant and continuous tit for tat for decades and centuries!

RJ - your decision was the right one and a noble one!

i have done the same in the past, - acting intuitively by stepping in without thinking of putting my own health and safety at risk, and when bystanders were just watching!

i've even been in a situation myself where i was assaulted in public and NOONE did ANYTHING but build a cirlce around us and WATCH!

You are a SUPERHERO!

Let's break this vicious cycle of lunatic and unacceptable behaviour! Since we are an 'intelligent' species - as someone mentioned earlier in this thread - then we can change that! Just because something's been done since the dawn of humanity, it doesn't mean it's right!

If you need to let off steam, go to the gym ... if that still doesn't still your hunger for aggressiveness - punch yourself in the face!

There are other ways of solving arguments and disagreement - for those of you who disagree, use the tool of communication and appealing to an understanding/ compromise on both sides!

Last concluding thought: ask yourself honestly: do you really think that a problem can be resolved by showing who's the 'stronger' one through a fist match?

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Originally posted by disko-kandi - punch yourself in the face!

OMG!!! BHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

I'm seriously LMAO over here!!!

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Translation: I am getting to old to fight and I am going soft in my old age. :P

I'm going to say you are joking (right?) because otherwise you plainly display your dim-wittedness (too many punches to the brain perhaps?)

I'm TOTALLY with RJ on this one. I grew up in Northern Ontario where all we did was drink beer, play hockey and fight.....I've been in a few good ones myself. I think everyone here can agree that in certain extreme situations, one may have no choice or find that they've lost control of their temper but the point RJ is making is that it should always be one's personal goal, as they mature and grow, to work on channelling and controlling that energy for more positive means of resolution and vastly minimizing the times when violence arises.

An interesting side issue also involved is the lack of RESPECT and HONOUR....one can no longer expect fair fights these days. When I grew up it was straight up, one on one, no weapons, no jump-ins, and the combatants had respect for eachother even if they hated each other. I even remember fights where, when the one person was clearly losing, that person was helped up and dusted off by the winner, the conflict addressed and often settled with no further annomosity or desire to "kill" eachother. Today, sadly the rules have changed by cowards with weapons or gangs who claim toughness out of dishonourable means. Now people get shot becuase someone "dissed" someone else? And we say we are evolving? HA!!!

FF

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