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Sure, most fights are really just sporting events - they have unwritten rules. But you can (and should) just walk away from those fights. I don't consider them important, because there's no need to participate.
Where I live, the fights you can't just walk away from almost always involve weapons and numbers. Even bar fights - they're never one on one (typically half the bar gets involved), and they almost always involve bottles, chairs, and whatever else is at hand. The cops say serious fights (meaning serious injuries) almost always involve weapons/numbers. So do the crime stats. If I'm worried about defending myself and my family, I'm thinking of defending against serious attacks, not ones that can be simply declined.
The point is, no one is denying that learning to fight unarmed isn't great against chest thumping optional fights. But anyone who thinks its the way to go against serious fights (ie your attacker means you serious harm and is not letting you just walk away) is living in an enviably gentle neighborhood.
well of course, but you are oversimplying things, and so is everyone saying you either fight to death or walk away (bringing any type of weapon to the fight has just scalated the conflict to an uncontrollable stage), life isnt just like that, all the way from elementary school through college, you go through a different stages of life, being considered weak could sealed your life till your death, trauma generated in those stages of life is normally going to stick to the end of yours, at that age, lets say teens years and early 20s, when the person is still in the social stage of his life, being able to defend your self and stand on your ground its extremelly important. Walking away from fights or from situations could lead you to be bullied, and the fuck that is a horrible horrible thing to go through, bullying is a world wide thing, not only a US thing (although in the US Ive seen just a whole other level of it). Even if you get beat the fuck up, sometimes its way better to take a good beating than waking away from problems, and it is certanly much better than getting a gun and killing the mother fucker because he was bullying you, I mean, ok you would make your point, hardly anyone is going to bully you for the rest of your life, although I will rather get bully than getting fuck in the ass for the rest of my life in prison.
Fist fighting has been a good way to deal and solve problems since the cave men era, and still is, and will always be, we are human beings, and as rational beings, we can still think and analyse situations, and react accord to them. So if im living in middle of africa where a civil war is going on, or the mexican border, of if the guy thats trying to bully you is the son of a drug lord, of course you aint about to go jiu jitsu on the guy, you either stfu walk away or say good bye to your life. We are talking about rational situations, and those people are not rational people.
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