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26 May 2009, 10:42 am

Yes, I agree, wrestling is stupid.

Violence and extreme anger are outside of my normal operating envelope. It is rare for me to get angry at people and even rarer for me to show it. I got violent with someone only once in my whole life, and this was during a serious meltdown caused by bullying, and directed against the person who was bullying me.


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26 May 2009, 10:43 am

Violence?? Oh god, resorting to violence feels awful, no matter if it's needed. The whole act of it feels dirty...

I got in a fight a few months ago with a room mate as a last resort to a persisting problem (long, long story), and I could barely motivate myself to throw every punch I did. Sure, I was fuming over the situation, but fighting isn't my style. I got what I wanted, and the room mate's true colors shown after the incident, showing that I did the right thing. If it weren't for the built up anger towards the situation, I would have never been able to do it.

I should also note that, nothing slowed down, there was no "moment". It was just, "Okay, that's my queue, I have to throw this punch... ugh... alright! *punch* *punch* Gotta make sure he can't retaliate, full force, grab his collar, dammit... *punch* *punch* *punch* *punch* pin him, he's regaining his composure...! *pin* *punch* *punch* (hears room mate's friend yelling stop) huh?" (immediately gets up).


However, as long as it doesn't go too far, violence in media is delicious. :twisted:



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26 May 2009, 3:10 pm

When I think of violence I just think of fights and all the injuries that result and the increased hostility after teh fight and how pointless it is.



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26 May 2009, 3:42 pm

Non controlled violence meaning wars even executions. I just feel boxing is fine same with martial arts and ufc but not when it comes to purposfully pulling out a gun and killing someone or going to another country and I feel murdering someone. I can murder anytime you kill someone who did not go after you or was aiming their weapon at you.


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26 May 2009, 3:44 pm

I love violence, it's a great way to show people you're serious, and they leave you alone afterwards. :)

Unfortunatly I don't like hurting/breaking anything (paradox) so I never use it. Atleast not much. :lol:
More like a very controled and focused psykal force when people won't get it verbaly. Like a finger-poke in some sensitive area of the body to make them move away a bit if they're too close to me. :twisted:


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26 May 2009, 3:48 pm

no.
am too used to it,eg,less through own incidents and meltdowns as am not always in any awareness of them,but on the recieving end from mum when she's drunk,people am was at school/college with,and living with other very challenging residents.
Am used to step in and physically defend the men at the previous residential home am lived at,because they were bullied by a 'severe' aspie lady who took advantage of peoples weaknesses [theirs was they wouldn't hit a girl].

To am it's nothing,am dont feel 'fear' so can walk into fights,and have no pain threshold,the only problem is when noise is involved,for her own amusement-she spent a year of screaming every day to set off severe tonic clonic seizures and meltdowns in am till she started getting too close,and KOed her everytime,was never restrained instantly,the staff would wait a while
before restraining am,but then congratulate on it-they were battered daily off her.

have heard people are using dogs as weapons now,how weak does it get?


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26 May 2009, 4:35 pm

In the context of martial arts, no, I do not hate it.

But in real fights, yes....it feels weird....I feel like a rapist for hitting another person, even though I needed to defend myself.


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26 May 2009, 4:51 pm

I don't mind mild children's cartoon violence, as that can be funny. However, I don't like real life violence and violence that involves blood, although the Family Guy "Peter vs The Chicken" fights can be funny even though they involve blood.


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26 May 2009, 10:37 pm

I like violence for fun when there's no intention to hurt the person like playful shoving. But if it were to get out of hand then that's not good.



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26 May 2009, 10:42 pm

I hate angry mobs but I have nothing against certain police violence or other people abusing their position if it's directed at people I despise. I can even accept mob violence if the victims are people I loathe, even though I would never affiliate myself with the mob.



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26 May 2009, 10:51 pm

Hate, to me, implies a "violent" & irrational disliking for something. I try not to hate anything. :)



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26 May 2009, 10:57 pm

Fudo wrote:
Hate, to me, implies a "violent" & irrational disliking for something. I try not to hate anything. :)


I hate a lot of things, hatred is my outer driving force, my fuel kind of. Without hatred I'm kind of slow minded and dim and my aspie traits become more evident. When I'm not hating I feel extremly spiritual and like I connect with the universe and what lies beyond, but hate fuels my sociopathic personality and is what determines how I interact with others. It sharpens my senses, makes me able to read and understand what many aspies can not. If I run out of hatred, I fear the light in my eyes will fade and my IQ will drop.



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27 May 2009, 12:02 am

Sparx139 wrote:
I'm not a fan of violence. War is a result of the diplomats making grievous mistakes (or it should be anyway),


unless it's an accidental MAD scenario in a nuclear war, it tends to be planned. See George Bush and Iraq.

World War I was a surprise, but the Alliance system meant they were prepared for it. Arguably partially an accident regarding how the countries acted (Germany giving Austria-Hungary carte blanche to deal with Serbia when Russia would say something...)


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27 May 2009, 12:12 am

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Wars and genocide aren't just a case of failed diplomacy... there have been far too many megalomaniacs--Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Kim Jung Il to name but a few--for that theory to hold water.


The leader is not the only thing that governs a state's actions. The state's culture, past n***a moments/animosity, the population's wills and desires, other government officials' views on things, etc all effect how a state acts.

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Between rational reasonable states it's an enormously useful process. But sanctions have their limits, can cause enormous suffering, and have just as many unintended consequences as wars on civilian populations.


Hence Constructivism and Neo-Marxism being good ideas for international theory :P


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27 May 2009, 12:15 am

oh. and I like spaceships going pew pew, things blowing up, shooting things. So yeah I like violence as I like space battles and weapons and their power....

Not as much a person-to-person fight dude though. Or large amounts of gore/blood (I didn't like those sections of Legend of Galactic Heroes, get halberds and hammers and cut your enemy open in some B.C. s**t while you're using thousand-ship spacefleets and able to build 40 kilometer battle station 3500 years in the future..... :lol:


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27 May 2009, 1:07 am

I grew up in a world of violence, and learned to fear it at a young age. I still fear it today. Even when I hear any loud yelling, it puts me on "high alert" and my anxiety goes through the roof.

I am a very unviolent person and learned a good way to avoid it. I've found that if I present the illusion of aggressiveness, or rather confidence, that most people tend to not want to mess with me. When in reality, I'm terrified that I might get into a violent situation.

The good thing is that after I got used to presenting that "confidence" I realized that people really did respect me, and after awhile it became natural to act that way. And now, it is no longer an illusion because I really am convinced that I am safe from confrontations. But, in the back of my mind, that fear will always be there.


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