You all have good points, but you are missing the obvious. Generations of inbreeding has produced an abundance of idiots. Our government has passed law after law that protects the dumb ones and then they breed and multiply. Survival of the fittest is non-existent anymore because the government sticks it's nose in everything and prevents nature from taking it's course. In reality our society is de-evolving. Don' believe me, watch the news some night!
Today you touch someone or threaten them and you go to jail. Twenty years ago, you kicked his arse and it was game over. That being said I have a hard time backing down. I usually tell people like that if they are looking for trouble they just found it and they picked the wrong guy to scew with. If they touch or shove me, they go down. I prefer knee caps or knee joints to start. Another method is a quick jab to the throat. If they want to take the fight to the ground, I am a pretty good wrestler. The game is over for them in short order. Now don't get me wrong, I don't look for trouble and usually avoid it at all cost. If it wants to find me on an isolated beach, that's another story. That being said, it's been about twenty years since I punched the last guy in the throat who kept grabbing my girlfriends chest. Two years ago at a middle school football game I had a drunk from the opposing team push me and try to start a fight. My instinct was kick his butt. I had all I could do to back down, but did because it was the wrong place and time for a fight. In front of kids would not be good, especially at a school function. My wife could not believe I walked away. Her dad is a retired Sheriff deputy and was prepared for the stuff to hit the fan. On my way out of the game, the guy shot his loud drunken mouth off, followed me and shoulder bumped several times from behind. Me and him were kind of isolated in the parking lot. I stopped turned around, pushed him lightly back in the chest and told him that if he followed me, touched me, or mouthed off again, he was gonna end up in the hospital. I reminded him that were isolated and it was just him and me and that I had no problem finishing what he started. Apparently his liquid courage wore off some because he walked away.
I am not like the brave barking little dog though. There is a time and a place. I have had to walk several times and bite my lip and show constraint, it happens.
I give you credit for walking away, it's not always an easy thing to do!
