I agree with most points above..
Fighting is such a loose term its impossible to explain.. there are so many factors involved...
Fighting CAN be avoided, but somtimes a good beating is the best treatment for sombody..imo
Generally ... At the end of the day there are two sides to it.. psycologically speaking..
We never enter a fight to receive a beating..
' Mostly ' we resort to physical violence as a last resort..
..where all of our current means of 'getting this other person to understand our point of view' are not working.. and we improvise another way of explanation..
I feel we all enter a fight with the aim to inflict pain on the other person.. KNOWING that the accompanied physical pain received, is a by product WORTH taking.. for whatever reasons..
.. So we want the other person to FEEL pain.. physical pain.. to teach them a lesson, so to speak
2ndly
We enter a fight to achieve somthing.. to gain somthing, or to remove a threat..
.. gaining Kudos at school, gain respect, money, self defence... etc etc etc..
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Its not showing of Lack of intelligance to get into a fight.. It shows a lack of control.. and there is only a certain amount of control we all have..
Example:
http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1194829253/Nutcase_Dentist_with_Road_Rage_Attacks_Everyone
Control over ourselves.. How much we can take..
From personal expeareance:
I used to fight a lot in highschool, and Primary School.. I was singled out for my Irish Accent and Terminology.. ( Ive lost the accent now..Grr! lol Ladis love it.. )
I was not a thug or anything in school, quite the opposite.. I was head Prefect and quite the teachers pet..
However I was forever being 'started on' from kids with a 'probem with me'..
..dont get me wrong.. I was never bullied in school, I had 2 older brothers above me in years and they never had to help me out.. I could always look after myself..
Ive not had a real fight since ..
Somtimes fighting is somthing we cannot avoid, suddenly its there upon us..
.. and where intelligence comes in, is what we do at that stage.. How we deal with it.. And how quickly we get to that decision..
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One thing I will say from expearance though is that few things makes you feel more alive than when your fighting for your life.. ( Generally not your life obviously.. but at the heat of the moment.. its certainly how it feels.. )
Its a very Primal Act.. and somthing which is very educational about yourself..