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hellian00
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in self defense? As in, she was attacking you and swinging full force blows. Could you bring yourself to hit her back?

I(believing strongly in gender equality) would have no problem hitting her back.

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Strop
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Ooh, remind me never to get in a fight with you Zophia, you might break your shins...

irockownage
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i would hit her unless i caused the problem

Zophia
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Ooh, remind me never to get in a fight with you Zophia, you might break your shins...
My shins? You kick shins? Ouch~

I'm much more of a tumble person than a fight person, really. Fights aren't fun. Tumblewrestletumble is. Also, aside from a certain someone and my mom, I seem to be unable to find people I'd actually be able to beat up anyway. *needs lower percentage of high/heavy guy friends*
(Just talking about the for fun beating ups there.)

When actually in fight, I will bite, kick, hit and try to play it dirty. Because I don't actually know any techniques. I'm muchly fail in battle~
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Just out of curiosity I've a follow up question to this? If you did hit a woman, how many times and where?

I already answered the original question with a: no I wouldn't hit a woman, not ever out of respect and the stupidity of getting in a fight with anyone for that matter so to answer the follow up question: there would b no reason to hit her anywhere nor multiple times.

Strop
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@ legatus88: never, as is consistent with my words. Also I don't pick fights.

My shins? You kick shins? Ouch~


Lol no, I just preemptively block kicks with my feet. You'd hurt yourself!

Just like a lot of other species do, I learnt some things from playing rough with my brother, but we had to stop doing that when we started damaging the house...
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Just like a lot of other species do, I learnt some things from playing rough with my brother, but we had to stop doing that when we started damaging the house...


It seems brotherly relations are universal in that respect.

Just out of curiosity I've a follow up question to this? If you did hit a woman, how many times and where?


Go for a liver shot, or just under the ribs, enough to temporarily incapacitate her before I got out of there.
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If the woman was weaker than me, I wound hold her hands :P

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in the wise words of ghandi: "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". fighting back would only result in guilt, regret, and likely more fighting later. i would try to calm her down, or just give her a hug. unexpected affection has solved similar situations many a time.


Note To Self: Hugging attackers will ave you. It could've saved Leonidas.`
Strop
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There's just no way I was going to hug that drunk chick. Her breath reeked!

DDX
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There's just no way I was going to hug that drunk chick. Her breath reeked!


well maybe you could have popped a breathmint in her mouth when your were doing so
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I would never hit girl. No matter how much she was hitting my.

jumanjaz
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how kind you are...I would hit them when they hit me.

FireflyIV
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"an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"


Gandhi also said this:

âI appeal for cessation of hostilities ⦠because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. Your soldiers are doing the same work of destruction as the Germans. The only difference is that perhaps yours are not as thorough as the Germans ⦠I venture to present you with a nobler and a braver way, worthy of the bravest soldiers. I want you to fight Nazism without arms or ⦠with non-violent arms. I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions. Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them ⦠I am telling His Excellency the Viceroy that my services are at the disposal of His Majestyâs Government, should they consider them of any practical use in advancing the object of my appeal.â â" Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

See now I'm a big fan of Gandhi, but man does that plan ever sound wildly unworkable. Violence is necessary in some situations.
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But when making broad statements like I respect women. The only logical thing to do is look at the average. So it's still not a contradiction.


Couldn't disagree more.
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I would not hit a woman in self defense. However I would put her in a position where she can't hurt me further,until someone comes to deal with the situation. (such as a wrist lock)

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