Times Have Changed

[UltraBudgie]

You have the choice to walk away and poof it's gone.

"It's okay to punch Nazis!"

"How do you know they're Nazis?"

"They make me want to punch them!"

[PorkChop96]

You are not in any position to hold any higher ground on manners or proper behaviour because you don't bother to put in any effort to control your own issues.

You do make others' emotions or their issues your problem, you internalize it, then you say you will choose violence and to disobey the law by deciding you will choose physical assault over walking away or calling the cops.

Time for you to take control of yourself isn't it?

I am in the only position to handle myself in any way that I see fit. My emotions play no factor in my decision making. If you step into my personal space hurling insults, yelling at me, or even threats, you will get what you have coming to you. how far that escalates from there is entirely up to you. 


you sure seem to assume you know a lot about people you have never met. Safe to say you are one that would call the cops after you get bitch slapped for getting in someone's face and having a meltdown because they wore a hat with the opposing political party on it. you do it here every single day

I take full responsibility for my actions and emotions, unlike people like you who make it everyone else's problem to deal with your emotions because you refuse to control them yourself. If you handle yourself in a proper manner, you won't get slapped. Simple as that. 

Don't F around, you will not have to find out.

[PorkChop96]

You have the choice to walk away and poof it's gone.

Or those people have the choice to not make their mentally instability the worlds problem to deal with, and poof problem doesn't arise to begin with....but you don't want to have that conversation

[quintessentone]

I am in the only position to handle myself in any way that I see fit. My emotions play no factor in my decision making. If you step into my personal space hurling insults, yelling at me, or even threats, you will get what you have coming to you. how far that escalates from there is entirely up to you. 


you sure seem to assume you know a lot about people you have never met. Safe to say you are one that would call the cops after you get bitch slapped for getting in someone's face and having a meltdown because they wore a hat with the opposing political party on it. you do it here every single day

I take full responsibility for my actions and emotions, unlike people like you who make it everyone else's problem to deal with your emotions because you refuse to control them yourself. If you handle yourself in a proper manner, you won't get slapped. Simple as that. 

Don't F around, you will not have to find out.

I know you choose to handle yourself in so far as that you would rather assault someone, use violence and break the law than walk away or call the cops to properly deal with a situation or perhaps a person in distress that you don't give a shit about. 

If you choose violence, bad manners, rudeness, name calling and knee jerk disrespect to deal with your issues or make yourself feel better, that's on you and as other members say here, you will face the consequences. All I am saying, it's easier to walk away.

[David64]

Well...I could, but I like to think I'm giving a gift to Humanity by teaching entitled little assholes that stupid should hurt.

Painful mistakes are the ones you remember best and least likely to repeat.

[PorkChop96]

I know you choose to handle yourself in so far as that you would rather assault someone, use violence and break the law than walk away or call the cops to properly deal with a situation or perhaps a person in distress that you don't give a shit about. 

If you choose violence, bad manners, rudeness, name calling and knee jerk disrespect to deal with your issues or make yourself feel better, that's on you and as other members say here, you will face the consequences. All I am saying, it's easier to walk away.

You don't know the law in my area, and clearly you ignore the precedents that have been previously posted by another user in this thread. 

Again, why is their emotional instability my problem to deal with? You have yet to answer that simple question

you continue to talk is if you know me, you don't and I am better off for it. I give the same as I receive. If you approach me with hostility and hatred, you will get that or worse in return. if you approach me with kindness and compassion, you will get that in return. If you approach me with concern I will do my best to assist.   Don't for one second think you know anything about me, you'd be wrong every single time. As you have proven time and time again. but then again, you never seem to have an issue with being wrong, just with being told/proven you are wrong.

[quintessentone]

You don't know the law in my area, and clearly you ignore the precedents that have been previously posted by another user in this thread. 

Again, why is their emotional instability my problem to deal with? You have yet to answer that simple question

you continue to talk is if you know me, you don't and I am better off for it. I give the same as I receive. If you approach me with hostility and hatred, you will get that or worse in return. if you approach me with kindness and compassion, you will get that in return. If you approach me with concern I will do my best to assist.   Don't for one second think you know anything about me, you'd be wrong every single time. As you have proven time and time again. but then again, you never seem to have an issue with being wrong, just with being told/proven you are wrong.

Why isn't your first instinct to walk away instead of escalating it and your feelz so that you want to assault someone?

[Ray1990]

If they are armed, that would make 2 of us. And out of the 2, I can almost guarantee they will be armed for nothing. 

Not sure where you are viewing the world from but here in the US, consequences are a foreign concept that most people under the age of 30, and some above that, can't seem to comprehend. 

There is a vast difference in throwing a tantrum and slapping someone for talking to you, and someone getting slapped for being in your face to verbally accost you. Most people don't understand that difference so they lump them together and see the latter as worse than the former. 


I was raised by a father with a heavy hand, learned at a young age that I was not immune to consequences. That is unheard of these days because those that were raised the same way I was, but never learned from their mistakes, see that as abuse. There, again, another vast difference between abuse and leaning your lesson. If you got his hand multiple times a day every day, that is abuse. If you broke your moms jewelry box after being told to not play around it and got it once, that is learning a lesson. 


Violence is always an option, and sometimes the only option to deal with certain people. If I tell you 10 times to get out of my face when you approach me at random to tell me how you feel about my clothes or hat or whatever, and you ignore that. Violence will teach you the lesson you need to learn.

I'm from the UK, we have the same core principles of self defense as any modern nation, how far that self-defence right expands is where we differ.

Yeah the cultural revolution we've seen the last 20-30 years is global, I have ideas on why that is, I'll save you a spiel and just say we've eroded institutional control but failed to teach the responsibility they naturally influenced.

Escalation to violence is necessary, it's an inescapable fact anyone who's ever suffered from it tends to realise. As others mention sometimes the opposite party is mentally ill, brought up wrong, going through levels of stress they can't regulate or simply having a bad day.

Personal experience and mentality? If I feel genuinely under threat I'm likely to escalate to a position one of us don't come back from very easily. It's just an odds game then and putting the numbers in my favour tends to cause even more drastic outcomes. If I'm a trained fighter the courts will most likely be harsher on me, if I put someone in the morgue or a hospital in an 'unreasonable' way there'll be similar outcomes. I honestly think it's ridiculous people end up losing lives over basic animalistic stupidity but lives are usually lost over stupid or even basic misunderstandings. The maths supports that heavily.

Most of all, when you're walking around with a chip on your shoulder these experiences are even more likely to happen. So it always comes back to 2 principles. Emotional regulation and a decent upbringing, it's usually the former and we all know someone who lost their shit because they've been through some shit. It's basically autonomic dysfunction keeping people in fight or flight.

Times have changed, they always change. People don't really change all that much though.

[PorkChop96]

Why isn't your first instinct to walk away instead of escalating it and your feelz so that you want to assault someone?

My "feelz" have nothing to do with it, but you keep ignoring that little fact. What a shocker......

Why is their emotional instability my problem to deal with?  Still nothing??

[David64]

Why isn't your first instinct to walk away instead of escalating it and your feelz so that you want to assault someone?

Why are you trying to find excuses for people who are abusive to others ?