What ever happened to fist fights?

Post #102,632 by Ashton 5/19/03 7:08:59 PM Reply	What ever happened to fist fights? But there.. you might actually experience normal pain - whereas a trigger or blade may save you from the unutterable agony of a shiner, or worse: of being shown second-best. Something appears to have snapped in umm evolution? Techno makes it so easy to kill w/o mussing clothes. Omnipresent lascivious fondling/marketing of guns is surely in there somewhere. And the crashfotainment hammers on that angle from cradle onwards through post-grad Nintendo. Could there be any connection or catalyst? Nahhhhh. Ashton
Post #102,642 by broomberg 5/19/03 7:49:30 PM Reply	Disagree - Equalizer I'm short, in lousy shape, limp a bit, and wouldn't survive 2 punches before going down. Most likely my head will hit the curb and I'll die. Why should I accept the fact that evolution favored some idiot physically who chooses to cause me harm? People who are used to getting in fights for the fun of it should be killed. Simple enough. They cause harm to people for FUN. They do not deserve the oxygen they waste. Note: I don't own any guns. Probably a good thing, ehh?
Post #102,647 by mhuber 5/19/03 8:12:33 PM Reply	In other primates... Fistfights take place a lot farther along the escalating agression line than the kinds of gestures that most resemble firing a handgun. A fight usualy goes through a fairly predictable escalation, which is pretty well standardized throughout the higher primates. There is a fairly high probability of the encounter breaking off at each escalation point - on the order of 50%. In other words, about half the time that a primate or group of primates starts screaming at another, that's the end of it. And about half the time that they progress to aggressive gestures, that's the end of it. And so on. Shooting appears to me to be somewhere between aggressive gestures and throwing shit. Which is several steps short of full contact with injury (fistfight). When a fight is just a matter of non-thinking primate behavior and not really about anything (which I think covers the vast majority of cases) there is shooting long before there would have been a fistfight, and therefore in many cases where there would have been no fistfight, because throwing shit (OK, that's rare in humans, but there are substitutes) would have been enough, or shoving, or wrestling. And the peacable individual who could most use the equalization is less likely to pack heat than the fighter. The fighter goes out knowing there is likely to be violence. The peacable guy goes out out knowing he's very unlikely to need equalization. ---- Whatever
Post #102,817 by jb4 5/20/03 3:05:55 PM Reply	ICLRPD! Shooting appears to me to be somewhere between aggressive gestures and throwing shit. jb4 "We continue to live in a world where all our know-how is locked into binary files in an unknown format. If our documents are our corporate memory, Microsoft still has us all condemned to Alzheimer's." Simon Phipps, SUN Microsystems
Post #102,988 by Ashton 5/21/03 4:23:04 PM Reply	Yes, my sentiments too + a possible First Cause? Only you said it much better. As lethal force has itself become not merely cartoonish - but omnipresent in that beast-conditioning which we euphemistically call entertainment .. then even the physical pain caused another (let alone any excruciating emotional and other forms) - is not even a concern deep-down, in that doped-state that today passes for 'consciousness'. Quite the reverse: it is a source of mirth [Oooh.. Loook! - His Head Exploded and they slowed-it-down so we. could. relish. every. millisecond.] Wait'll ya see the New HDTV attachment; remember ink-jet printers? the razor blade scam that trapped millions and made Murican former-mfgs. into mere importing clerks, as well as bandits? *Squirt-Vision* Don your [supplied] PVC gown; sit Reeel Close: and Experience!! The Splatter! [does anyone doubt ... It's Coming ??] And when this conditioning begins concomitant with catechism and other primitive branding- numbing- rites (even without ever hearing of Pavlov): WTF did we Expect? Posit: could it begin with the ritual mutilation of the penis? performed on the least-capable of Resisting; serving no purpose save 'we've always done this' + utter BS about 'hygiene'! (as-if All were as dull as the medico trade hope$; nay.. grows rich from fulfilled expectation$). Could this be the First Intentional deSensitization, which sets the stage for all which follows? Just a possibility, nor am I the first to suggest.. Ashton (Who isn't ..mutilated, solely because of a prescient choice quite early-on; that of selecting a Mother who would tell the AMA-drones to Fuck Off! when they presented her with a list of available options for supporting their boat payments. She also later passed on the 'remove tonsils / appendices' manias + a few others. Did I mention that this lady was no fucking Dummy? Lucky moi.) Marketing: more addictive than heroin, but without the sense of peaceful well being. This we call.. satisfiction.
Post #102,825 by boxley 5/20/03 3:41:02 PM Reply	I dont like to fight, dont like pain, I go out of my way to avoid them, so if you insist that I fight anyway better wear a welders mask and a hockey cup otherwise you will have dificulty using testicles for eyeballs and a retina is a damn poor relacement for a vas deferens. Fist fights are what bullies excuse their behavior as. Since a lot of bullies know some people pack weapons they are more circumspectful than they would ordinarily be. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org] "I hit him so hard in the head his dog shat a turd in the shape of Jesus" Leonard Pine
Post #103,053 by mhuber 5/22/03 3:23:14 AM Reply	Re: Since a lot of bullies know some people pack weapons... I think you give them too much credit. Usualy it's basic dominance behavior that doesn't involve any thought at all. And it happens on a level where guns don't exist - at least not until... ---- Whatever

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