Things worth a physical altercation

I am not a violent guy... There's some things I just won't tolerate though. Child molestors, wife beaters, severe disrespect or violence towards me or my loved ones. Those are the easy ones.

Most people are quick to run their mouths but slow to actually throw a punch. Some are quick to throw punches over some incidental or even non-existent slight... It's easy to say I would do this or that. But what have you ever actually FOUGHT for and felt like it was worth it when the fight was over?

Off the top of my head, home invasion. When you invade another person's home, where they live, where their family live, you accept responsibility in advance for whatever they may do to you. I'm also not a violent person, but I would beat the **** out of anyone who violates my home.

Once upon a time, even the Mafia forbade hitting a guy in his own house.

Things are worth fighting for, but short of self-defence (or the defence of someone in trouble), there is nothing worth physically fighting for, in my opinion. If someone raped my girlfriend, for example, I would be angry beyond description, but I wouldn't hunt the guy down and beat him up because: 1) I'm not a physically tough guy and 2) I don't believe in that. I don't think there is a place where an "eye-for-an-eye" attitude will ever solve anything (even though beating someone up isn't equivalent to rape by any means). Unless my life was in danger, or someone else was in danger and I could realistically do something about it, I would never react to assault someone physically no matter how much they hurt me. When it comes to a life or death scenario, it becomes a whole different matter.

The closest I've come to violence in a long time was at a hockey game a couple years ago. There were about six of us there. My skinny loudmouth buddy was sitting at the other end from me, and he was chirping with a drunk fan of the other team sitting right in front of him. It seemed like good-natured trash talk but as we got up to leave, the guy turned around and slapped my buddy. My friend just started laughing, but I got down the isle and into the guys face in a heartbeat. We jawed at each other for a minute and then he walked, so nothing came of it. I reacted on instinct rather than any real conscious decision that I should defend my 150-pound friend from the 200-pound drunk redneck. I was completely sober, too. So I would have to say I would get into a physical altercation for my friends if the situation calls for it. Not something I look to do and thankfully my friends don't tend to get themselves into those situations often.

Family would be an even more automatic response.

First thing off the top of my head, is if anyone touches (violently or perversely) or disrespects my sister.

There's only a few others, but that's probably the biggest one.

I think it really just comes down to how much you will take, how much you will tolerate, and how much you are willing to endure to NOT have a physical confrontation. One thing I have learned over my life is that if you just let people push you around or harm you physically, what you in turn tell them is that not only can they get away with whatever it is they will do to you, but that you are okay with it to some extent. Otherwise, you wouldn't allow it, you would do something back and make them stop. It tells people that you don't care enough about yourself to even stand up for yourself, and when they get these messages it just serves as a signal to them to keep doing whatever it is they choose to do to you. With that in mind I do not seek out physical confrontation by any means, but if someone does physically threaten me(as in trying to attack me) there is no way I am going to sit there and take it. I am going to retaliate, and I am going to do so with very bad intentions. Luckily I don't have to do that often, people just leave me alone. I don't exactly look like the type of person you want to pick a fight with and that helps.

As for specific situations other than someone attacking you, there really isn't much to get into a physical confrontation over. No matter what it is, unless you have the opportunity as something is happening and the situation calls for it, you should never go looking for a fight, or to seek out revenge for someones wrong-doing to you. Even if someone is in your face flapping their jibbs at you, until they actually do something there is no reason to strike. Despite all the typing I do on here, when it comes to that kind of thing I am a man of few words. My sentiment is "Don't Talk About It, Be About It". If someone is in my face trying to get tough I'm going to lay it out plain and simple for them "Either shut your f*cking mouth, go sit down, and quit being a b*tch or do something and find out how big of a mistake you are making" I'm not going to waste my time talking **** back and forth with you, either nut up or shut up. I don't need to tell you how tough I am, I don't need to act tough, and I don't need to prove how tough I am to anyone. But, if you really want to find out and you've got the balls to try it, I will make you pay for it.

I've endured too much sh*t in my lifetime from the time I was a toddler all the way through high school to take anyone's ****, to be harassed, or to be physically threatened. I am a nice guy, I try to get along with everyone, but every now and then there comes along some little b*tch with a small mans complex who wants to show how tough they are by trying to take on the alpha. I don't like to hurt people, but I was trained in a number of way how to do just that with ease. Rather than do that and just go straight to inflicting the most damage possible as quick as possible, when someone takes a shot at me I just try to show them very quickly that this is a bad decision by restraining them and showing them that I have the upper hand. Generally after someone tries and immediately fails and you show them this mercy, they get the idea, and quit. Sometimes though there are those people who are too dumb for their own good and think they have something to prove and you have to put them down. I don't like it one bit, but sometimes it's what you have to do.

I haven't been physically violent with someone in over ten years. I'm no pacifist, but violence in my life has always hurt me more in the long run. However, there are a select handful of people and specific situations that would cause me to attack someone. I hope it never has to happen.

I don't like to fight but I have a very short temp. and sometimes it takes alot to make me mad but then if you talk about my family or just anything personal I get that tunnel vison and can't stop my self.Luckly though i'm not very small so most people ignore me.

Everyone in the world just needs to chill the **** out.

I don't fight at all. Never have. Just walk away. It doesn't make you a pussy, it makes you smart.

There are some things I'd fight for obviously. But it would take a lot.

Firstly I have NEVER hit anyone. Never been in any kind of altercation. What can I say, I'm a nice guy. BUT..

If another man (I wouldn't lay a hand on another woman, I would jut make sure they were sent down for what they did) physically hurt my wife, parents, or sisters. I would beat the s**t out of them no questions asked. The level of the beating would depend on how bad he hurt them.

If another man KILLED a member of my family. I honestly can't comment on what I would do, because I don't know. Would I be capable of killing another man? Probably not but....My wife is severely disabled and if another man murdered her (as she can't defend herself in any way). Then yeah I reckon I could go to that place. I wouldn't care if I went down because he would have taken away my reason for living.

But this is getting rather morbid the above is highly unlikely to happen and like I say I'm a really nice guy and don't have any enemies.